Jean Carletta

Developing Meeting Support Technologies: From Data to Demonstration (and Beyond) (2009)

Carletta, Jean

Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA 2009. Editors: Kristiina Jokinen and Eckhard Bick. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 4 (2009), 2-3. © 2009 The editors...

Running Head: COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR TEAMS The effects of multimedia communication technology on non-collocated teams: a case study (2008)

Jean Carletta, Anne H. Anderson, Rachel Mcewan

technology, supply chain Collaborative teams are becoming increasing important for industry, both within and across companies. There is a need for communication technology to support teams because...

The Effects of Multimedia Communication Technology on Non-Collocated Teams: A Case Study (2007)

Jean Carletta, Anne H. Anderson, Rachel Mcewan

Collaborative teams are becoming increasing important for industry, both within and across companies. There is a need for communication technology to support teams because many teams are...

Placement of Authority and Communication Pattern in Workplace Groups - The Consequences for Innovation (2007)

Jean Carletta, Simon Garrod, Heidi Fraser-krauss

Group discussion is typically made up of a series of pairwise conversations. Using a corpus of workplace meetings in which decision-making authority is placed either in one individual or in the group...

The MATE Annotation Workbench: User Requirements Abstract (2007)

Jean Carletta, Amy Isard

facilitate the re-use of spoken dialogue resour,'es an,l to foster etnl)iricai invesl, igation o1 " (lialoguc by pro-viding a workl)ench which,:an l)e used to atlnotal.c and explore...

Communication and Effectiveness in Primary Health Care Teams (2007)

Jean Carletta

Primary health care team members need to communicate effectively with each other in order to provide integrated care. Using interviews with practice managers about team practice and observation of...

The Effectiveness of Health Care Teams (2007)

In The National, Carol S. Borrill, Jean Carletta, Angela J. Carter, Jeremy F. Dawson, Simon Garrod, ...

This report focuses on determining whether, and if so, how teamworking can help

Brief report: imitation of meaningless gestures in individuals with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism (2007)

Rajendran, G., Stieglitz Ham, Heidi, Corley, Martin, Carletta, Jean, Swanson, Sara

Nineteen people with Asperger syndrome (AS)/High-Functioning Autism (HFA) (ages 7-15) were tested on imitation of two types of meaningless gesture: hand postures and finger positions. The individuals...

Towards an alternative implementation of NXT’s query language via XQuery (2006)

Neil Mayo, Jonathan Kilgour, Jean Carletta

The NITE Query Language (NQL) has been used successfully for analysis of a number of heavily cross-annotated data sets, and users especially value its elegance and flexibility. However, when using...

Incorporating speaker and discourse features into speech summarization (2006)

Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore

We have explored the usefulness of incorporating speech and discourse features in an automatic speech summarization system applied to meeting recordings from the ICSI Meetings corpus. By analyzing...

Incorporating speaker and discourse features into speech summarization (2006)

Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore

We have explored the usefulness of incorporating speech and discourse features in an automatic speech summarization system applied to meeting recordings from the ICSI Meetings corpus. By analyzing...

Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings (2005)

Murray, Gabriel, Renals, Steve, Carletta, Jean, Moore, Johanna

The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus. Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried out, with a central...

Extractive summarization of meeting recordings. (2005)

Murray, Gabriel, Renals, Steve, Carletta, Jean

Several approaches to automatic speech summarization are discussed below, using the ICSI Meetings corpus. We contrast feature-based approaches using prosodic and lexical features with maximal...

Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings (2005)

Murray, Gabriel, Renals, Steve, Carletta, Jean, Moore, Johanna

The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus. Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried out, with a central...

Extractive summarization of meeting recordings. (2005)

Murray, Gabriel, Renals, Steve, Carletta, Jean

Several approaches to automatic speech summarization are discussed below, using the ICSI Meetings corpus. We contrast feature-based approaches using prosodic and lexical features with maximal...

The AMI Meeting Corpus: a Pre-Announcement (2005)

Carletta, Jean, Ashby, Simone, Bourban, Sebastien, Flynn, Mike, Guillemot, Mael, Hain, Thomas, ...

The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consisting of 100 hours of meeting recordings. It is being created in the context of a project that is developing meeting browsing technology and will...

The ami meeting corpus: a pre-announcement (2005)

Carletta, Jean, Ashby, Simone, Bourban, Sebastien, Flynn, Mike, Guillemot, Mael, Hain, Thomas, ...

The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consisting of 100 hours of meeting recordings. It is being created in the context of a project that is developing meeting browsing technology and will...

The AMI meeting corpus: A pre-announcement (2005)

Jean Carletta, Simone Ashby, Sebastien Bourban, Mike Flynn, Thomas Hain, Jaroslav Kadlec, ...

Abstract. The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consisting of 100 hours of meeting recordings. It is being created in the context of a project that is developing meeting browsing...

Extractive Summarization of Meeting Recordings (2005)

Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta

Several approaches to automatic speech summarization are discussed below, using the ICSI Meetings corpus. We contrast feature-based approaches using prosodic and lexical features with maximal...

Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings (2005)

Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore

The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus (Janin et al., 2003). Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried...

Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation (2005)

And Or Summarization, Gabriel Murray, Jean Carletta

The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus (Janin et al., 2003). Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried...

Nonverbal behaviours improving a simulation of small group discussion (2003)

Emiliano Padilha, Jean Carletta

This paper reports on the development of a multi-agent simulation of small group discussion that focusses on the interaction and the coordination of turn-taking. We describe the addition of nonverbal...

The NITE object model library for handling structured linguistic annotation on multimodal data sets (2003)

Jean Carletta, Jonathan Kilgour, Tim O’donnell

The NITE Object Model Library is an implemented set of routines for loading, accessing, manipulating, and serializing linguistic data. It is similar in spirit to the data handling provided by the...

A shallow model of backchannel continuers in spoken dialogue (2003)

Nicola Cathcart, Jean Carletta, Ewan Klein

Spoken dialogue systems would be more acceptable if they were able to produce backchannel continuers such as mm-hmm in naturalistic locations during the user's utterances. Using the HCRC Map...

A Shallow Model of Backchannel Continuers in Spoken Dialogue (2003)

Nicola Cathcart Canon, Jean Carletta, Ewan Klein

Spoken dialogue systems would be more acceptable if they were able to produce backchannel continuers such as mm-hmm in naturalistic locations during the user's utterances.

A generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using XML (2002)

Jean Carletta, David Mckelvie, Amy Isard, Andreas Mengel, Deutsches Forschungszentrum, Künstliche Intelligenz, ...

Large-scale linguistic annotation is currently employed for a wide range of purposes, including comparing communication under different conditions, testing psycholinguistic hypotheses, and training...

Advanced Tools for the Study of Natural Interactivity (2002)

Claudia Soria Niels, Niels Ole Bernsen, Niels Cadée, Jean Carletta, Laila Dybkjær, Ulrich Heid, ...

The NITE European project aims at building an integrated best practice workbench for multi-level, cross-level and cross-modality annotation, retrieval and exploitation of multi-party natural...

A Simulation of Small Group Discussion (2002)

Emiliano Padilha And, Emiliano G. Padilha, Jean Carletta

We describe a simulation of turn-taking in small group discussion which includes behaviours from a range of modalities such as speech, gaze, facial expression, gesture, and posture. The simulation is...

Project ref. no. IST-1999-10647 (2001)

Project Title Isle, Natural Interaction, Multimodal Data, Laila Dybkjær Nislab, Author(s Laila Dybkjær, Laila Dybkjær, ...

for dissemination) This report discusses overall functionality, interface, architecture and platform requirements to a toolset in support of transcription, annotation, information extraction and...

Group Discussion as Interactive Dialogue or as Serial Monologue: The Influence of Group Size (2000)

Nicolas Fay, Simon Garrod, Jean Carletta

Current models draw a broad distinction between communication as dialogue and communication as monologue. The two kinds of models have different implications for who influences whom in a group...

The MATE Annotation Workbench: User Requirements (1999)

Marion Klein, Andreas Mengel, Morten Baun Møller, Jean Carletta, Amy Isard

The MATE project (Telematics LE4-8370) aims to facilitate the reuse of spoken dialogue resources and to foster empirical investigation of dialogue by providing a workbench which can be used to...

The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme. (1997)

Carletta, Jean, Isard, Amy, Isard, Stephen, Kowtko, Jacqueline C, Doherty-Sneddon, Gwyneth, Anderson, Anne H

This papers describes the reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme which is based on utterance function, game structure, and higher level transaction function, and which has been applied to...

The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme. (1997)

Carletta, Jean, Isard, Amy, Isard, Stephen, Kowtko, Jacqueline C, Doherty-Sneddon, Gwyneth, Anderson, Anne H

This papers describes the reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme which is based on utterance function, game structure, and higher level transaction function, and which has been applied to...

The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme (1997)

Jean Carletta, Amy Isard, Jacqueline C. Kowtko

This paper describes the reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme which is based on utterance function, game structure, and higher level transaction structure, and which has been applied to...

The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme (1997)

Jean Carletta, Stephen Isard T, Gwyneth Doherty-sneddon, Amy Isard, Anne H. Anderson

This paper describes the reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme based on utterance function, game structure, and higher-level transaction structure that has been applied to a corpus of...

Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic (1996)

Carletta, Jean

Currently, computational linguists and cognitive scientists working in the area of discourse and dialogue argue that their subjective judgments are reliable using several different statistics, none...

Squibs and discussions, Assessing agreement on classification tasks: The kappa statistic (1996)

Jean Carletta

Currently, computational linguists and cognitive scientists working in the area of discourse and dialogue argue that their subjective judgments are reliable using several different statistics, none...

Combining Power With Tractability in Belief Models (1996)

Jasper Taylor, Jean Carletta, Chris Mellish

Belief models are used in AI computer applications in a great many roles, both to keep track of the beliefs of users and to simulate the belief states of agents modelled by the system. Epistemic...

Requirements for Belief Models in Cooperative Dialogue (1996)

Jasper Taylor And, Jasper Taylor, Jean Carletta, Chris Mellish

Models of rationality typically rely on underlying logics that allow simulated agents to entertain beliefs about one another to any depth of nesting. We argue that representations of individual...

Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic (1996)

Jean Carletta

Introduction Computational linguistic and cognitive science work on discourse and dialogue relies on subjective judgments. For instance, much current research on discourse phenomena distinguishes...

HCRC Dialogue Structure Coding Manual (1996)

Jean Carletta, Amy Isard

Currently, many researchers are using coding of discourse and dialogue phenomena in collected corpora to study the dynamics of dialogue. This manual describes a coding system based on utterance...

Assessing agreement on classification tasks: The kappa statistic (1996)

Jean Carletta

Currently, computational linguists and cognitive scientists working in the area of discourse and dialogue argue that their subjective judgments are reliable using several different statistics, none...

Replicability of Transaction and Action Coding in the Map Task Corpus (1995)

Amy Isard, Jean Carletta

Task-oriented dialogues can normally be divided into subdialogues, each of which reflects collaboration on a particular substep of the task, and which we call `transactions'. We have devised a...

Transaction and Action Coding in the Map Task Corpus (1995)

Amy Isard, Jean Carletta

Task-oriented dialogues can normally be divided into subdialogues, each of which reflects collaboration on a particular substep of the task, and which we call `transactions'. We have devised a...

A Collection of Self-repairs from the Map Task Corpus (1993)

Jean Carletta, Richard Caley, Stephen Isard

As part of a study of message generation in spontaneous speech, we have collected information about self-repairs in ten dialogues from the HCRC Map Task Corpus. This document describes the coding...

A System Architecture for Simulating Time-Constrained Language Production (1993)

Jean Carletta, Richard Caley, Stephen Isard, Buccleuch Place

The goal of our research is to simulate the human production of language under time constraints. In this paper, we briefly discuss two behaviours arising from time pressure, hesitation and...

Planning to fail, not failing to plan: Risk-taking and recovery in task-oriented dialogue (1992)

Jean Carletta

We hypothesise that agents who engage in task- contains 128 such dialogues; in this work we examined oriented dialogue usually try to complete the task with eight plus a set of dialogues from the...