There is a great need in the Joint Forces to have human to human interpersonal training for
skills such as negotiation, leadership, interviewing and cultural training. Virtual …

Virtual humans offer an exciting and powerful potential for rich interactive experiences. Fully
embodied virtual humans are growing in capability, ease, and utility. As a result, they …

BACKGROUND Natural language processing (NLP) systems, such as speech recognition,
machine translation, or other text to text applications, typically rely on language models to …

In this paper, we describe methods for building and evaluation of limited domain question-
answering characters. Several classification techniques are tested, including text …

(57) ABSTRACT A method is provided in one example and includes receiving results for a
search query initiated by a user; evaluating the results in relation to a personal profile of the …

Speech recognition may be improved by generating and using a topic specific language
model. A topic specific language model may be created by performing an initial pass on an …

Virtual Reality (VR) is rapidly evolving into a pragmatically usable technology for mental
health (MH) applications. Over the last five years, the technology for creating virtual humans …

We describe the use of text data scraped from the web to augment language models for
Automatic Speech Recognition and Keyword Search for Low Resource Languages. We …

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Reading proficiency is a fundamental component of language competency. However,
finding topical texts at an appropriate level for foreign and second language learners is a …