Vidya Somashekarappa


2020

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An Annotation Approach for Social and Referential Gaze in Dialogue
Vidya Somashekarappa | Christine Howes | Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

This paper introduces an approach for annotating eye gaze considering both its social and the referential functions in multi-modal human-human dialogue. Detecting and interpreting the temporal patterns of gaze behavior cues is natural for humans and also mostly an unconscious process. However, these cues are difficult for conversational agents such as robots or avatars to process or generate. The key factor is to recognize these variants and carry out a successful conversation, as misinterpretation can lead to total failure of the given interaction. This paper introduces an annotation scheme for eye-gaze in human-human dyadic interactions that is intended to facilitate the learning of eye-gaze patterns in multi-modal natural dialogue.

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Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)
Christine Howes | Stergios Chatzikyriakidis | Adam Ek | Vidya Somashekarappa
Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)