[humaine news] First public SEMAINE demonstrator released

[Marc Schroeder]

The SEMAINE project has released its first public demonstrator: an early 
version of its Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) system -- a 
multimodal dialogue system with the social interaction skills needed for 
a sustained conversation with a human user.

SEMAINE-1.0 is the first public demonstrator of the SEMAINE project, 
resulting from development in the first project year.

As a snapshot of “work in progress”, the demonstrator aims to illustrate 
the following:

     * the SEMAINE project has proposed a system architecture for 
realising multimodal analysis and generation in a user-and-ECA dialogue 
situation;
     * a SEMAINE API has been created to allow processing components to 
communicate with each others according to the architecture, using 
appropriate representation formats at interfaces between components;
     * an initial set of components exist to partially realise the core 
functions of a SAL system.

The system is not yet intended to function as a fully operational, 
real-time SAL system; its main aim is to give an “early view” to 
technologically interested experts, indicating the direction in which 
the work is going. Individuals and research teams interested in 
cooperation around the SEMAINE platform are explicitly invited to 
contact the project team.

The system is open source (LGPL, portions GPL).

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/semaine/
Documentation: http://semaine.opendfki.de/wiki/SEMAINE-1.0
Report: 
http://semaine.sourceforge.net/SEMAINE-1.0/D1b%20First%20integrated%20system.pdf 

Project website: http://www.semaine-project.eu

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Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net
Team Leader DFKI Speech Group http://mary.dfki.de

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: schroed at dfki.de
Phone: +49-681-302-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 
Saarbrücken, Germany
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Dr. Walter Olthoff
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