4 accepted papers
This paper introduces Motion Personalization, a new task that generates personalized motions aligned with text descriptions using several basic motions containing Persona. To support this novel task, we introduce a new large-scale motion dataset called PerMo (PersonaMotion), which captures the uniqu…
The increasing use of AI agents in conversational services, such as counseling, highlights the importance of back-channeling (BC) as an active listening strategy to enhance conversational engagement. BC improves conversational engagement by providing timely acknowledgments and encouraging the speake…
Research on open-domain dialogue systems that allow free topics is challenging in the field of natural language processing (NLP). The performance of the dialogue system has been improved recently by the method utilizing dialogue-related knowledge; however, non-English dialogue systems suffer from re…
Backchannel (BC), a short reaction signal of a listener to a speaker’s utterances, helps to improve the quality of the conversation. Several studies have been conducted to predict BC in conversation; however, the utilization of advanced natural language processing techniques using lexical informatio…