Laura Stoia


2008

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SCARE: a Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions
Laura Stoia | Darla Magdalene Shockley | Donna K. Byron | Eric Fosler-Lussier
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Even though a wealth of speech data is available for the dialog systems research community, the particular field of situated language has yet to find an appropriate free resource. The corpus required to answer research questions related to situated language should connect world information to the human language. In this paper we report on the release of a corpus of English spontaneous instruction giving situated dialogs. The corpus was collected using the Quake environment, a first-person virtual reality game, and consists of pairs of participants completing a direction giver- direction follower scenario. The corpus contains the collected audio and video, as well as word-aligned transcriptions and the positional/gaze information of the player. Referring expressions in the corpus are annotated with the IDs of their virtual world referents.

2006

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Noun Phrase Generation for Situated Dialogs
Laura Stoia | Darla Magdalene Shockley | Donna K. Byron | Eric Fosler-Lussier
Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference

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Sentence Planning for Realtime Navigational Instruction
Laura Stoia | Donna Byron | Darla Shockley | Eric Fosler-Lussier
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers