Papers by Christian Dondrup
Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic (2024.eacl-demo)
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Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon
| Challenge: | a new spoken dialogue system is being developed for hospitals and hospitals to enable multi-party interactions . a social robot can be used to have multi-part conversations with patients and their companions . |
| Approach: | They describe a spoken dialogue system that allows patients to have multi-party conversations with their companions . they use speech and video input to generate both speech and gestures - arm, head, and eye movements . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system generates human-like clarification requests when the patient pauses mid-utterance, answers in-domain questions, and responds appropriately to out-of-domain requests. |
RECANTFormer: Referring Expression Comprehension with Varying Numbers of Targets (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for REC assume that a single referring expression always refers to a one instance in the image. |
| Approach: | They propose a one-stage method that generates bounding boxes for objects referred to in natural language expressions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines in three GREC datasets. |