26 research outputs found
An untapped communicative potential. Twitter as a dialogue generator 3 mechanism in electoral campaign
El uso de Twitter como herramienta estratégica para la comunicación política se ha incrementado notablemente
durante los últimos años, especialmente en período de campaña electoral. El objetivo de esta
investigación es examinar el grado de cumplimiento de los principios dialógicos atribuidos a las redes
sociales. Para ello se aplica la técnica del análisis de contenido cuantitativo a los tuits publicados por
los principales partidos españoles (PP, PSOE, Podemos y Ciudadanos) durante las elecciones generales
de 2015. Los resultados demuestran que pese al elevado número de publicaciones realizadas por los
cuatro partidos, ninguno aprovecha el potencial dialógico de TwitterThe use of Twitter as strategic tool for political communication has increased considerably in recent
years, particularly during electoral campaigns. The main goal of this paper is to examine the degree of
compliance with the principles of dialogue attributed to social media. To achieve this, a quantitative
content analysis was carried out on the tweets shared by the main Spanish political parties during the
2015 General Elections. The results show that although a high number of tweets were made by the
four political parties during this period, none of them took advantage of the full potential of dialogue
on TwitterEste trabajo forma parte del proyecto de investigación CSO2014-52283-C2-1-P, financiado por el Ministerio de
Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de Españ
Better Conversations by Modeling,Filtering,and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity
We present three enhancements to existing encoder-decoder models for
open-domain conversational agents, aimed at effectively modeling coherence and
promoting output diversity: (1) We introduce a measure of coherence as the
GloVe embedding similarity between the dialogue context and the generated
response, (2) we filter our training corpora based on the measure of coherence
to obtain topically coherent and lexically diverse context-response pairs, (3)
we then train a response generator using a conditional variational autoencoder
model that incorporates the measure of coherence as a latent variable and uses
a context gate to guarantee topical consistency with the context and promote
lexical diversity. Experiments on the OpenSubtitles corpus show a substantial
improvement over competitive neural models in terms of BLEU score as well as
metrics of coherence and diversity
Dataflow Dialogue Generation
We demonstrate task-oriented dialogue generation within the dataflow dialogue
paradigm. We show an example of agenda driven dialogue generation for the
MultiWOZ domain, and an example of generation without an agenda for the
SMCalFlow domain, where we show an improvement in the accuracy of the
translation of user requests to dataflow expressions when the generated
dialogues are used to augment the translation training dataset
A grammatical specification of human-computer dialogue
The Seeheim Model of human-computer interaction partitions an interactive application into a user-interface, a dialogue controller and the application itself. One of the formal techniques of implementing the dialogue controller is based on context-free grammars and automata. In this work, we modify an off-the-shelf compiler generator (YACC) to generate the dialogue controller. The dialogue controller is then integrated into the popular X-window system, to create an interactive-application generator. The actions of the user drive the automaton, which in turn controls the application
Twitter and political communication: the case of the Partido Popular and Podemos in the 2016 general elections
Este trabajo analiza el uso que hicieron de Twitter las cinco cuentas oficiales de las comunidades autónomas con mayor número de seguidores del Partido Popular y Podemos durante la campaña electoral para las elecciones generales de 2016. Siguiendo la metodología del análisis de contenido, se analizaron 1.845 tuits. Los resultados obtenidos confirman el uso de Twitter como herramienta unidireccional, sin llegar a establecerse un diálogo fluido entre partidos y votantes. Twitter es utilizado como un medio para la difusión de información y la promoción de aspectos propios de la campaña electoral.This paper analyzes how Twitter was used by the five official accounts of the Autonomous Communities with the largest number of followers of the Partido Popular and Podemos during the electoral campaign for the 2016 general elections. Based on the content analysis methodology, 1.845 tweets were analyzed. The results obtained confirm the use of Twitter as a unidirectional tool, without establishing a fluid dialogue between parties and voters. Twitter is used to disseminate information and promote aspects of the electoral campaign
THE ROLE OF COGNITIVE APPORTIONMENT IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
As the number of information system users increases, we are witnessing a related increase in the complexity and the diversity of their applications. The increasing functional complexity amplifies the degree of functional and technical understanding required of the user to make productive use of the application tools. Emerging technologies, increased and varied user interests and radical changes in the nature of applications give rise to the opportunity and necessity to re-examine the proper apportionment of cognitive responsibilities in human/system interaction. Examples illustrate the opportunities afforded by such an examination. A framework is presented that illustrates many of the tradeoffs that occur in a reapportionment activity. A knowledge-based architecture is proposed to facilitate both static and dynamic reapportionment decisions
A Comprehensive Review of Data-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation
Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient
embodied human communication. The automatic generation of such co-speech
gestures is a long-standing problem in computer animation and is considered an
enabling technology in film, games, virtual social spaces, and for interaction
with social robots. The problem is made challenging by the idiosyncratic and
non-periodic nature of human co-speech gesture motion, and by the great
diversity of communicative functions that gestures encompass. Gesture
generation has seen surging interest recently, owing to the emergence of more
and larger datasets of human gesture motion, combined with strides in
deep-learning-based generative models, that benefit from the growing
availability of data. This review article summarizes co-speech gesture
generation research, with a particular focus on deep generative models. First,
we articulate the theory describing human gesticulation and how it complements
speech. Next, we briefly discuss rule-based and classical statistical gesture
synthesis, before delving into deep learning approaches. We employ the choice
of input modalities as an organizing principle, examining systems that generate
gestures from audio, text, and non-linguistic input. We also chronicle the
evolution of the related training data sets in terms of size, diversity, motion
quality, and collection method. Finally, we identify key research challenges in
gesture generation, including data availability and quality; producing
human-like motion; grounding the gesture in the co-occurring speech in
interaction with other speakers, and in the environment; performing gesture
evaluation; and integration of gesture synthesis into applications. We
highlight recent approaches to tackling the various key challenges, as well as
the limitations of these approaches, and point toward areas of future
development.Comment: Accepted for EUROGRAPHICS 202