Learning to Generate Context-Sensitive Backchannel Smiles for Embodied AI Agents with Applications in Mental Health Dialogues

1 code implementation • 13 Feb 2024 • Maneesh Bilalpur, Mert Inan, Dorsa Zeinali, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Malihe Alikhani

To improve the rapport-building capabilities of embodied agents we annotated backchannel smiles in videos of intimate face-to-face conversations over topics such as mental health, illness, and relationships.

Argumentative Stance Prediction: An Exploratory Study on Multimodality and Few-Shot Learning

no code implementations • 11 Oct 2023 • Arushi Sharma, Abhibha Gupta, Maneesh Bilalpur

To advance argumentative stance prediction as a multimodal problem, the First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining hosted stance prediction in crucial social topics of gun control and abortion.

Argument Mining Few-Shot Learning