Registration is now open for the Internacional Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems for Health Applications that will take place in the beutiful Carmen de la Victoria (Granada, Spain) from 31st August to 3rd September 2022. The school provides a platform for getting to know and discuss current approaches and research streams in the field …
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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, …
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 UniversitĂ degli Studi della Campania Luigi …
Emotion recognition is attracting the attention of the research community due to its multiple applications in different fields, such as medicine or autonomous driving. In this paper, we proposed an automatic emotion recognizer system that consisted of a speech emotion recognizer (SER) and a facial emotion recognizer (FER). For the SER, we evaluated a pre-trained …
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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Emotion Recognition is attracting the attention of the research community due to the multiple areas where it can be applied, such as in healthcare or in road safety systems. In this paper, we propose a multimodal emotion recognition system that relies on speech and facial information. For the speech-based modality, we evaluated several transfer-learning 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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Conversational interfaces have recently become a ubiquitous element in both the personal sphere by easing access to services, and industrial environments by the automation of services, improved customer support and its corresponding cost savings. However, designing the dialog model used by these interfaces to decide system responses is still a hard-to-accomplish task for complex conversational …
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 …
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.