The prevalent state of the art in spoken language understanding by spoken dialog systems
is both modular and pipelined. It is modular in the sense that incoming utterances are …

Synthesizing realistic facial animation remains one of the most challenging topics in the
graphics community because of the complexity of deformation of a moving face and our …

CHAPTER 1 Language is all around us. Most of us spend almost every waking hour doing
something that is language related: talking, listening, reading, memorizing a groceries list …

Although many theories of on-line syntactic processing invoke the parallel activation of
multiple syntactic representations, evidence supporting simultaneous activation has been …

In this paper, we propose a novel generalized distance metric based on a model that
incorporates the time axis explicitly. The proposed metric is based fundamentally on the …

Participants' eye movements were monitored while they followed spoken instructions to
manipulate one of four objects pictured on a computer screen. The target word occurred in …

The authors evaluated the roles of auditory-verbal short-term memory, visual short-term
memory, and group membership in predicting language comprehension, as measured by an …

Gaze has multiple functions in situated dialogue. It guides perceptual processing and
provides feedback to the interlocutor by indicating what is being attended to. These …

In a conversational system, determining the user's focus of attention is crucial to the success
of the system. Motivated by previous psycholinguistic findings, we are currently examining …

Although language processing has traditionally been viewed as a modular process, there is
a growing body of evidence suggesting that information from other domains such as vision …