Leveraging Speech for Gesture Detection in Multimodal Communication
Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analysis is detecting...
Co-Speech Gesture Detection through Multi-Phase Sequence Labeling
Gestures are integral components of face-to-face communication. They unfold over time, often following predictable movement phases of preparation, stroke, and retraction. Yet, the prevalent...
Analyzing Narrative Processing in Large Language Models (LLMs): Using GPT4 to test BERT
The ability to transmit and receive complex information via language is unique to humans and is the basis of traditions, culture and versatile social interactions. Through the disruptive...
Making sense of spoken plurals
Distributional semantics offers new ways to study the semantics of morphology. This study focuses on the semantics of noun singulars and their plural inflectional variants in English. Our goal is...
Semantic properties of English nominal pluralization: Insights from word embeddings
Semantic differentiation of nominal pluralization is grammaticalized in many languages. For example, plural markers may only be relevant for human nouns. English does not appear to make such...