1 code implementation • DMR (COLING) 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Lucia Donatelli, James Pustejovsky
Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a simple, expressive semantic framework whose emphasis on predicate-argument structure is effective for many tasks.
no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Richard Brutti, Lucia Donatelli, Kenneth Lai, James Pustejovsky
This paper presents Gesture AMR, an extension to Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), that captures the meaning of gesture.
1 code implementation • 26 Mar 2024 • Ibrahim Khebour, Kenneth Lai, Mariah Bradford, Yifan Zhu, Richard Brutti, Christopher Tam, Jingxuan Tu, Benjamin Ibarra, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky
Within Dialogue Modeling research in AI and NLP, considerable attention has been spent on ``dialogue state tracking'' (DST), which is the ability to update the representations of the speaker's needs at each turn in the dialogue by taking into account the past dialogue moves and history.
no code implementations • 3 Nov 2023 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich, Vlad Shmerko
This paper considers the adaptation of the e-coaching concept at times of emergencies and disasters, through aiding the e-coaching with intelligent tools for monitoring humans' affective state.
no code implementations • 3 Nov 2023 • Kenneth Lai, Mohammed Almekhlafi, Svetlana Yanushkevich
This paper presents an approach for detecting unilateral arm paralysis/weakness using kinematic data.
no code implementations • 3 Nov 2023 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich
The impacts of mass migration, such as crisis induced by climate change, extend beyond environmental concerns and can greatly affect social infrastructure and public services, such as education, healthcare, and security.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2023 • Rahat Islam, Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich
In this paper, we investigate hand gesture classifiers that rely upon the abstracted 'skeletal' data recorded using the RGB-Depth sensor.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2023 • Mackenzie Wallich, Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich
Accelerometry has been extensively studied as an objective means of measuring upper limb function in patients post-stroke.
no code implementations • 19 Sep 2022 • Kenneth Lai, Vlad Shmerko, Svetlana Yanushkevich
In this paper, we study performance and fairness on visual and thermal images and expand the assessment to masked synthetic images.
no code implementations • 3 Jan 2022 • Leonardo Queiroz, Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich, Vlad Shmerko
In this study of the face recognition on masked versus unmasked faces generated using Flickr-Faces-HQ and SpeakingFaces datasets, we report 36. 78% degradation of recognition performance caused by the mask-wearing at the time of pandemics, in particular, in border checkpoint scenarios.
no code implementations • 24 May 2021 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich, Vlad Shmerko
This paper considers e-coaching at times of pandemic.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Lucia Donatelli, Kenneth Lai, James Pustejovsky
We analyze the use and interpretation of modal expressions in a corpus of situated human-robot dialogue and ask how to effectively represent these expressions for automatic learning.
no code implementations • 24 Aug 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich
The development of decision support systems is a growing domain that can be applied in the area of disease control and diagnostics.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, Vlad Shmerko
This paper addresses the evaluation of the performance of the decision support system that utilizes face and facial expression biometrics.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana Yanushkevich
Each sub-network is trained to perform the task of gesture recognition using only skeleton joints.
Ranked #6 on Hand Gesture Recognition on DHG-14
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Helder C. R. Oliveira, Ming Hou, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, Vlad Shmerko
An example of such a system is a cognitive biometric-enabled security checkpoint.
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Xinyuan Tu, Svetlana Yanushkevich
Without the use of "soft" biometrics, the identification rate of dogs is 78. 09% but by using a decision network to incorporate "soft" biometrics, the identification rate can achieve an accuracy of 84. 94%.
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich
In this paper, we propose to combine the power of two deep learning techniques, the convolutional neural networks (CNN) and the recurrent neural networks (RNN), for automated hand gesture recognition using both depth and skeleton data.
Ranked #7 on Hand Gesture Recognition on DHG-14
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, Vlad Shmerko
This paper concerns with facial-based watchlist technology as a component of automated border control machines deployed in e-borders.
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2020 • Kenneth Lai, Svetlana N. Yanushkevich
In this paper, we aim to address the problem of heterogeneous or cross-spectral face recognition using machine learning to synthesize visual spectrum face from infrared images.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2020 • Svetlana Yanushkevich, Shawn Eastwood, Kenneth Lai, Vlad Shmerko
This paper aims at identifying emerging computational intelligence trends for the design and modeling of complex biometric-enabled infrastructure and systems.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Kenneth Lai, James Pustejovsky
Under the standard approach to counterfactuals, to determine the meaning of a counterfactual sentence, we consider the {``}closest{''} possible world(s) where the antecedent is true, and evaluate the consequent.