The opinion mining and human-agent interaction communities are currently addressing
sentiment analysis from different perspectives that comprise, on the one hand, disparate …

In this article, we review the INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE
(ComParE)–the first of its kind–in light of the recent developments in affective and …

Whenever consumers interact with technological devices connected to the internet, they
disclose information about themselves. The rapid diffusion of voice technology is shifting the …

Effective leadership bears strong relationship to attributes of emotion contagion, positive
mood, and social intelligence. In fact, leadership quality has been shown to be manifested in …

Information about a subjective user opinion towards an argument is crucial for
argumentative systems in order to present appropriate content and adapt their behaviour to …

Reasoning over conflicting information, ie to argue is at the core of many types of
conversation such as persuasion, negotiation and deliberation. The multitude of setups that …

Human behavior varies widely as does the design of spoken dialog systems (SDS). The
search for predictors to match a user's preference and efficiency for a specific dialog …

In spoken utterances, prosody is encoded in the form of pitch accent, intonation, and rhythm,
and conveys linguistic and paralinguistic information such as emphasis, intent, attitude, and …