Abstract This paper describes Movie-DiC a Movie Dialogue Corpus recently collected for
research and development purposes. The collected dataset comprises 132,229 dialogues …

In this paper, we propose a new annotation scheme for Japanese response tokens (RTs),
which is based on strict and consistent procedures. Our scheme consists of two-stage …

Summarization of multi-party conversation is one of the important tasks in natural language
processing. In this paper, we explain a Japanese corpus and a topic segmentation task. To …

Robot utterances generally sound monotonous, unnatural and unfriendly because their Text-
to-Speech systems are not optimized for communication but for text reading. Here, we …

This paper proposes a sentence selection technique for constructing phonetically and
prosodically balanced compact recording scripts for speech synthesis. In the conventional …

Human-assisting systems such as dialogue systems must take thoughtful, appropriate
actions not only for clear and unambiguous user requests, but also for ambiguous user …

This article presents a user model for user simulation and a system state representation in
spoken decision support dialogue systems. When selecting from a group of alternatives …

Robot utterances generally sound monotonous, unnatural, and unfriendly because their Text-
to-Speech (TTS) systems are not optimized for communication but for text-reading. Here we …

Persuasive dialogue systems, systems which are not passive actors, but actually try to
change the thoughts or actions of dialogue participants, have gained some interest in recent …

This paper addresses a first step toward a spoken dialogue system that evokes user's
spontaneous backchannels. We construct an HMM-based dialogue-style text-to-speech …