Conversational AI applications are comprised of a hierarchy of deep learning natural language processing (NLP) models and speech technologies. Making these many different components work together to realize robust real-world applications a complex, both in terms of model interaction and computing resource orchestration. Deploying NLP models for processing speech requires end-to-end speech recognition, appropriate segmentation, …

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Another PhD obtained by a young researcher in our MENHIR team! ?? Terry Amorese has passed her PhD viva, with a Thesis entitled: “Assistive virtual agents: the impact of agents’ features and emotions on elderly people perception and preferences.” Congratulations to Terry and her supervisor Prof. Gennaro Cordasco from Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi …

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MENHIR member María Inés Torres is part of the Steering Committee of the CUI2022 conference, that will take place in Glasgow from 26th to 28th July 2020. CUI 2022 aims to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with a specific interest in theory-based and applied scientific issues …

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MENHIR member Matthias Kraus, from Ulm University is co-organizing the Workshop on Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces (CUI@CHI) at the ACM CHI 2022 conference, which will be focused on ethics of CUIs. More information: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/workshops/CHI2022/ Submissions due:February 24th, 2022

On February 23-24, the “Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-being” (CS_AIW) Cluster will hold its 4th Meeting of Minds, the first to be open to the public. It will revolve around the question “How can new technologies better support patients/users?“. Primarily, the event aims at gathering important feedback from end-users.They will have the unique chance …

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MENHIR members Maurice Mulvenna and Jane Zheng from Ulster University are co-organizing the First International Workshop on Trustworthy AI for the Future of Risk Management (TAI-RM 2022) in Belfast on 14th June. Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Novel theoretical achievements for TAI methodology. Novel developments for existing TAI techniques. …

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The community DiverTLes: Diversity in Language Technologies in Spainm an initiative within the framework of the thematic network of excellence PLNnet, presents the Round Table “PLN in international projects” to be held virtually on 18 January 2022 at 17.30. On this occasion there will be 3 speakers (Zoraida Callejas, Elena González and Elena Lloret) who …

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The moto of World Mental Health Day 2021 is: “Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality”. Today, the World Health Organization is encouraging everyone to highliht positive stories that may be inspirational and share helpful materials. Here there are some useful links: Depression and suicide: what you need to know and what …

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The CS_AIW cluster has organized today two succesful Meeting of Minds events (MoM3 and MoM3+) to share their approaches about exploitation and user studies respectively. It is possible to trace the discussion on twitter with the #CS_AIW hashtag and check MENHIR slides for MoM3+ here.