We have collected a corpus of data from natural meetings that occurred at the International
Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California over the last three years. The …

This report surveys the main theories of dialogue and communication that have been used
to devise dialogue act tagsets, distinguishing theories that deal with a specific level of …

(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 2005. O197843 A1* 9, 2005 Faisman et
al. TO4, 276 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 2005/0203738 A1* 9/2005 …

In this paper we present the Slim-tree, a dynamic tree for organizing metric datasets in
pages of fixed size. The Slim-tree uses the “fat-factor” which provides a simple way to …

During face-to-face interactions, groups frequently overly rely on the dominant viewpoint to
lead the group in its decision-making process. We begin with a discussion of this …

State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems for meetings are now at a point where
overlapped speech contributes significantly to the errors made by the system. However, little …

The paper contributes to the development of the theory of AI-Completeness by formalizing
the notion of AI-Complete, C-Complete and AI-Hard problems. The intended goal is to …

The AMI and AMIDA projects are concerned with the recognition and interpretation of
multiparty meetings. Within these projects we have: developed an infrastructure for …

Microphones and cameras have been extensively used to observe and detect human
activity and to facilitate natural modes of interaction between humans and intelligent …

In this paper, we report on the infrastructure we have developed to support our research on
multimodal cues for understanding meetings. With our focus on multimodality, we investigate …