Peter Juel Henrichsen
Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jens Allwood
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Published in: NEALT Proceedings. Northern European Association for Language and Technology; 4th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication; November 15-16; Gothenburg; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 93:7, p. 47-53
NEALT Proceedings Series 21:7, p. 47-53
Published: 2013-10-29
ISBN: 978-91-7519-461-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
We present our experiments on attitude detection based on annotated multi-modal dialogue data1. Our long-term goal is to establish a computational model able to predict the attitudinal patterns in human-human dialogue. We believe; such prediction algorithms are useful tools in the pursuit of realistic discourse behavior in conversational agents and other intelligent man-machine interfaces. The present paper deals with two important subgoals in particular: How to establish a meaningful and consistent set of annotation categories for attitude annotation; and how to relate the annotation data to the recorded data (audio and video) in computational models of attitude prediction. We present our current results including a recommended set of analytical annotation labels and a recommended setup for extracting linguistically meaningful data even from noisy audio and video signals.
attitude detection; prediction of attitude flow; attitude annotation; multimodal speech cues
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