Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text

Yukiko I. Nakano; Masashi Okamoto; Daisuke Kawahara; Qing Li; Toyoaki Nishida

Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text

Yukiko I. Nakano, Masashi Okamoto, Daisuke Kawahara, Qing Li, Toyoaki Nishida

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Abstract

This paper proposes a method for assigning gestures to text based on lexical and syntactic information. First, our empirical study identified lexical and syntactic information strongly correlated with gesture occurrence and suggested that syntactic structure is more useful for judging gesture occurrence than local syntactic cues. Based on the empirical results, we have implemented a system that converts text into an animated agent that gestures and speaks synchronously.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	153-156
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	1932432248, 9781932432244
Publication status	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	2004 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Short Papers, HLT-NAACL 2004 - Boston, United States Duration: 2004 May 2 → 2004 May 7

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Name	HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Conference

Conference	2004 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Short Papers, HLT-NAACL 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	04/5/2 → 04/5/7

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Nakano, Y. I., Okamoto, M., Kawahara, D., Li, Q., & Nishida, T. (2004). Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text. In HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers (pp. 153-156). (HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text. / Nakano, Yukiko I.; Okamoto, Masashi; Kawahara, Daisuke et al.
HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2004. p. 153-156 (HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Nakano, YI, Okamoto, M, Kawahara, D, Li, Q & Nishida, T 2004, Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text. in HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers. HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 153-156, 2004 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Short Papers, HLT-NAACL 2004, Boston, United States, 04/5/2.

Nakano YI, Okamoto M, Kawahara D, Li Q, Nishida T. Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text. In HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2004. p. 153-156. (HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers).

Nakano, Yukiko I. ; Okamoto, Masashi ; Kawahara, Daisuke et al. / Converting text into agent animations : Assigning gestures to text. HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2004. pp. 153-156 (HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers).

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