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Non-verbal Communication between Humans and Robots: Imitation, Mutual Understanding and Inferring Object Properties

Humans can express their actions and intentions, resorting to verbal and/or non-verbal communication. In verbal communication, humans use language to express, in structured linguistic terms, the desired action they wish to perform. Non-verbal communication ...

EPFL2023

United States politicians' tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there is disagreement as to whether Trump changed or merely continued previous t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

High gamma response tracks different syntactic structures in homophonous phrases

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

Syntax is a species-specific component of human language combining a finite set of words in a potentially infinite number of sentences. Since words are by definition expressed by sound, factoring out syntactic information is normally impossible. Here, we c ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

ODIANLP's Participation in WAT2020

Petr Motlicek

This paper describes the team (“ODI-ANLP”)’s submission to WAT 2020. We have participated in the English→HindiMultimodal task and Indic task. We have used the state-of-the-art Transformer model for the translation task and Incep-tionResNetV2 for the Hindi ...

ACL2020

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia

Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

2019

Cross-lingual Automatic Speech Recognition Exploiting Articulatory Features

Petr Motlicek

Articulatory features (AFs) provide language-independent attribute by exploiting the speech production knowl-edge. This paper proposes a cross-lingual automatic speechrecognition (ASR) based on AF methods. Various neural network(NN) architectures are explo ...

2019

Predicting Group Performance in Task-Based Interaction

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

We address the problem of automatically predicting group performance on a task, using multimodal features derived from the group conversation. These include acoustic features extracted from the speech signal, and linguistic features derived from the conver ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding

Mi Xue Tan

Character-level Neural Machine Translation(NMT) models have recently achieved impressive results on many language pairs. They mainly do well for Indo-European language pairs, where the languages share the same writing system. However, for translating betwe ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2018

Studying Linguistic Changes over 200 Years of Newspapers through Resilient Words Analysis

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

This paper presents a methodology to analyze linguistic changes in a given textual corpus allowing to overcome two common problems related to corpus linguistics studies. One of these issues is the monotonic increase of the corpus size with time, and the ot ...

2017

Analyse multi-échelle de n-grammes sur 200 années d'archives de presse

Vincent Christian Buntinx

The recent availability of large corpora of digitized texts over several centuries opens the way to new forms of studies on the evolution of languages. In this thesis, we study a corpus of 4 million press articles covering a period of 200 years. The thesis ...

EPFL2017

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