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Kenneth Lai

6 accepted papers

2025

Speech Is Not Enough: Interpreting Nonverbal Indicators of Common Knowledge and Engagement

AAAI 2025technical

Our goal is to develop an AI Partner that can provide support for group problem solving and social dynamics. In multi-party working group environments, multimodal analytics is crucial for identifying non-verbal interactions of group members. In conjunction with their verbal participation, this creat…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

TRACE: Real-Time Multimodal Common Ground Tracking in Situated Collaborative Dialogues

NAACL 2025system demonstrations

We present TRACE, a novel system for live *common ground* tracking in situated collaborative tasks. With a focus on fast, real-time performance, TRACE tracks the speech, actions, gestures, and visual attention of participants, uses these multimodal inputs to determine the set of task-relevant propos…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations

COLING 2024main

This paper reports the first release of the UMR (Uniform Meaning Representation) data set. UMR is a graph-based meaning representation formalism consisting of a sentence-level graph and a document-level graph. The sentence-level graph represents predicate-argument structures, named entities, word se…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

Common Ground Tracking in Multimodal Dialogue

COLING 2024main

Within Dialogue Modeling research in AI and NLP, considerable attention has been spent on “dialogue state tracking” (DST), which is the ability to update the representations of the speaker’s needs at each turn in the dialogue by taking into account the past dialogue moves and history. Less studied b…

2024

Encoding Gesture in Multimodal Dialogue: Creating a Corpus of Multimodal AMR

COLING 2024main

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a general-purpose meaning representation that has become popular for its clear structure, ease of annotation and available corpora, and overall expressiveness. While AMR was designed to represent sentence meaning in English text, recent research has explored…