Jean-Yves Antoine

TL;DR: This paper presents the EPAC corpus which is composed by a set of 100 hours of conversational speech manually transcribed and by the outputs of automatic tools applied on the entire French ESTER 1 audio corpus: this concerns about 1700 hours of audio recordings from radiophonic shows.

TL;DR: An experimental study with four measures (Cohen's κ, Scott's π, binary and weighted Krippendorff ' s α) on three tasks: emotion, opinion and coreference annotation suggests that weighted α is the most reliable metrics for such an annotation scheme.

TL;DR: This paper will present and report on the progress of the EVALDA/MEDIA project, focusing on the recording and annotating protocol of the reference dialogue corpus, to design and test an evaluation methodology to compare and diagnose the context-dependent and independent understanding capability of spoken language dialogue systems.

TL;DR: The latest version of Sibylle, an AAC system that permits persons who have severe physical disabilities to enter text with any computer application, as well as to compose messages to be read out through speech synthesis, is described.

TL;DR: This paper explored the predictive powers of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a method that has been shown to provide reliable information on long-distance semantic dependencies between words in a context, and presented several methods that integrate LSA-based information with a standard language model: a semantic cache, partial re-ranking, and different forms of interpolation.