Engagement is the process by which participants establish, maintain, and end their
perceived connection. Automatic engagement inference is one of the tasks required to …

An integral part of seamless human-human communication is engagement, the process by
which two or more participants establish, maintain, and end their perceived connection …

In this paper, we consider engagement in the context of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
Previous studies in HRI relate engagement to emotion and attention independently from the …

In this paper, we apply reinforcement learning for automatically learning cooperative
persuasive dialogue system policies using framing, the use of emotionally charged …

In this paper, we propose a new framework of cooperative persuasive dialogue, where a
dialogue system simultaneously attempts to achieve user satisfaction while persuading the …

The way gaze cues are used in social interactions is by no means irrelevant because they
are fundamentally important for understanding social interactions. In this paper, we argue …

We examine the relationship between initiative behavior in negotiation dialogues and the
goals and outcomes of the negotiation. We propose a novel annotation scheme for dialogue …

In this paper, we apply reinforcement learning (RL) to a multi-party trading scenario where
the dialog system (learner) trades with one, two, or three other agents. We experiment with …

Abstract Concept or feature identification, ie, the identification of the source code fragments
implementing a particular feature, is a crucial task during software understanding and …

On e-commerce platforms like OLX, Craigslist, etc. users can sell and buy a variety of
products and also chat with the buyer for additional information such as pictures, description …