If a dialog system can respond to a user as naturally as a human, the interaction will be smoother. In this research, we aim to develop a dialog system by emulating the human behavior in a chat-like dialog. In this paper, we developed a dialog system which could generate chat-like responses and their timing using a decision tree. The system could perform “collaborative completion,” “aizuchi” (b...

Anomia (word-finding difficulties) is the hallmark of aphasia, an acquired language disorder most commonly caused by stroke. Assessment speech performance using picture naming tasks a key method for both diagnosis and monitoring responses to treatment interventions people with aphasia (PWA). Currently, this assessment conducted manually therapists (SLT). Surprisingly, despite advancements in au...

Our researches focus on Sign Language (SL) gestures, which can be manual or non-manual (like facial expressions). This abstract presents the study we conduct in the field of French SL (LSF) processing. We intend to propose a coarticulation model of signs of LSF, thus we need accurate analysis of both isolated and in utterance signs. We follow a several step methodology: video corpus creation, a...

The paper is about the issue of addressing in multi-party dialogues. Analysis of addressing behavior in face to face meetings results in the identification of several addressing mechanisms. From these we extract several utterance features and features of non-verbal communicative behavior of a speaker, like gaze and gesturing, that are relevant for observers to identify the participants the spea...