Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a form of AI that can autonomously generate new
content, such as text, images, audio, and video. Generative AI provides innovative …

This paper presents a question answering (QA) system that will enable workers from the
manufacturing industry to'hands-free'request information. This kind of systems, that are …

Designing human–machine interactive systems requires cooperation between different
disciplines is required. In this work, we present a Dialogue Manager and a Language …

Following the success of Natural Language Processing (NLP) transformers pretrained via
self-supervised learning, similar models have been proposed recently for speech …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) are
two quickly developing technologies that have the potential to completely transform a lot of …

In this work, we present an approach to understand the computational methods and decision-
making involved in the identification of emotions in spontaneous speech. The selected task …

In an age of life-long learning, it is important that adult learners can effectively use their
motivation and resources to reach their learning goals. In conversation, coaches can …

Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects older individuals,
with the majority of cases occurring in people over the age of 65. As the global population …

Many studies present and evaluate daily-use systems ranging from information to
conversational systems. Chatbots, either text-based or voice-based, have attracted the …

Conversational systems have emerged as potent tools for increasing the accessibility of user-
facing applications, in particular, search and recommendation. This dissertation addresses …