LexE

Humans adapt to each others at various levels during a conversation. LexE investigates how this phenomenon transposes to human-computer interaction, and how to use it to provide better dialog systems.

scrawl.in

Scrawl.in enables neighbors to discuss via hyper-local message boards in the cloud. It's a personal project which is still in its very beta version, but you can already have a look at it.

tellus

VoIP-enabled spoken dialog system based on Olympus architecture. It will be handling a subset of calls to the City of Pittsburgh 311 line.

2011

Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. Speaking to the Crowd: looking at the past achievements in using crowdsourcing for speech and predicting future challenges. Interspeech 2011. [PDF]

Black, A., Burger, S., Conkie, A., Hastie, H., Keizer, S., Lemon, O., Merigaud, N., Parent, G., Schubiner, G., Thomson, B., Williams, J.D., Yu, K., Young, S. and Eskenazi, M. Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results SIGDIAL 2011. [PDF]

Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. CHI 2011. [PDF] Sources of Variability and Adaptive Tasks.

2010

Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. Toward Better Crowdsourced Transcription: Transcription of a Year of the Let's Go Bus Information System Data. SLT 2010. [PDF]

Black, A., Burger, S., Langner, B., Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010. SLT 2010. [PDF]

Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. Lexical Entrainment of Real Users in the Let's Go Spoken Dialog System. Interspeech 2010. [PDF]

Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. Clustering dictionary definitions using Amazon Mechanical Turk. NAACL/HLT 2010 MTurk workshop. [PDF]

Dela Rosa, K., Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. Multimodal learning of words: A study on the use of speech synthesis to reinforce written text in L2 language learning. SLaTE 2010. [PDF]

2008

Parent, G., Gagnon, M., and Muller, P. Annotation d'expressions temporelles et d'événements en français. TALN2008. [PDF]