The Sensitive Artificial Listner: an induction technique for generating emotionally coloured conversation

Douglas-Cowie, Ellen and Cowie, Roddy and Cox, Cate and Amier, Noam and Heylen, Dirk (2008) The Sensitive Artificial Listner: an induction technique for generating emotionally coloured conversation. In: LREC Workshop on Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect, 26 May 2008, Marrakech, Marokko.

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Abstract:	The aim of the paper is to document and share an induction technique (The Sensitive Artificial Listener) that generates data that can be both tractable and reasonably naturalistic. The technique focuses on conversation between a human and an agent that either is or appears to be a machine. It is designed to capture a broad spectrum of emotional states, expressed in ‘emotionally coloured discourse’ of the type likely to be displayed in everyday conversation. The technique is based on the observation that it is possible for two people to have a conversation in which one pays little or no attention to the meaning of what the other says, and chooses responses on the basis of superficial cues. In SAL, system responses take the form of a repertoire of stock phrases keyed to the emotional colouring of what the user says. The technique has been used to collect data of sufficient quantity and quality to train machine recognition systems.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/65319
Official URL:	http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/workshops/W2_Proceedings.pdf
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