Loredana Cerrato's publication list from 2002 to today

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2002

Some characteristics of feedback expressions in Swedish
Loredana Cerrato
 
in TMH.OPSR Vol.43 Fonetik 2002 p. 101-104 and poster presented at the summer school NATO-ASI 2002 "The dynamics of speech production and speech perception", Il Ciocco, Italy, Summer 2002.

Different ways of ending human-machine interactions
Loredana Cerrato and Susanne Ekeklint
in proceedings of AAMAS02 Workshop, Bologna, Italy August 2002.

A comparison between feedback strategies in Human-to Human and Human-Machine communication
Loredana Cerrato
in proceedings of ICSLP-2002, Denver, Colorado USA.

Looking for feedback expressions in spoken corpora
Loredana Cerrato
Presentation at the NORDTALK summerschool in "Using spoken language corpora" Göteborg 19-24 August 2002.

A Study of Verbal Feedback in Italian
Loredana Cerrato
in Proceedings of the NORDTALK Symposium on Relations between Utterances, Copenaghen 5-7 December 2002, pp. 80-97

Quantifying non-verbal communicative behaviour in face-to-face human dialogues, (abstract)
Loredana Cerrato and Mustafa Skhiri
poster presented at FIRST PAN-AMERICAN/IBERIAN MEETING ON ACOUSTICS 2-6 December 2002 Cancun, Mexico.

2003
Analysis and measurement of communicative gestures in human dialogues (pdf)
Loredana Cerrato and Mustafa Skhiri
Proc. of AVSP 2003, St. Jorioz, France, pp. 251-256

Duration and tonal characteristics of short expressions in Italian , (pdf)
Loredana Cerrato and Mariapaola D'Imperio
In Proceedings of the ICPhs Barcellona 2-9 Augusti 2003
(picture of the poster presented at ICPhS)

Utilizzo dei parametric della fonetica acustica nell' identificazione del parlante in ambito forense,
Loredana Cerrato and Andrea Paoloni
 In "Voce, Canto Parlato, Studi in Onore di Franco Ferrero" P. Cosi, E. Magno Caldognetto A. Zamboni (eds), Unipress 2003 pp.59-66

A study of gestural feedback expressions (.ps)
Jens Allwood and Loredana Cerrato
First Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Paggio P. Jokinen K. Jönsson A. (eds), Copenaghen, 23-24 September 2003, pp.7-22

Analysis and Measurment of head movements signalling feedback in face-to-face human dialogues, (.pdf)
Loredana Cerrato and Mustapha Skhiri
in  Proceedings of the First Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Paggio P. Jokinen K. Jönsson A. (eds) Copenaghen, 23-24 September 2003, pp.43-52

A comparative study of verbal feedback in Italian and Swedish map-task dialogues (.prn)
Loredana Cerrato
in Proceedings of the Nordic Symposium on the Comparison of Spoken Languages, November 2003, Copenaghen (pp.99-126)

2004

Expressive Animated Agents for Affective Dialogue Systems (.pdf)
Jonas Beskow, Loredana Cerrato, Björn Granström, David House, Mikael Nordenberg, Magnus Nordstrand och Gunilla Svanfeldt
In André, E., Dybkjaer, L., Minker, W. & Heisterkampf, P. (Eds.), Proc. of Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS): 301-304


Preliminary Cross-cultural Evaluation of Expressiveness in Synthetic Faces (.
ps)
Jonas Beskow, Loredana Cerrato, Piero Cosi, Erica Costantini, Magnus Nordstrand, Fabio Pianesi, Michaela Prete, Gunilla Svanfeldt
In André, E., Dybkjaer, L., Minker, W. & Heisterkampf, P. (Eds.), Proc. of Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS): 240-243

The Swedish PF-Star Multimoda Corpora (.
ps)
Jonas Beskow, Loredana Cerrato, Björn Granström, David House, Magnus Nordstrand, Gunilla Svanfeldt
LREC Workshop on Models of Human Behaviour for the Specification and Evaluation of Multimodal Input and Output Interfaces, Lisboa 25 May 2004 (p.34-37)

A coding scheme for the annotation of feedback phenomena in conversational speech (.prn)
Loredana Cerrato
in Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Models of Human Behaviour for the Specification and Evaluation of Multimodal Input and Output Interfaces, Lisboa 25 May 2004 (p. 25-28)

"Evaluating users reactions to human-like interfaces: Prosodic and paralinguistic features as new evaluation measures for users’ satisfaction"
Loredana Cerrato and Susanne Ekeklint
in "From Brows to Trust Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents"
Edited by Zsofia Ruttkay and Catherine Pelachaud Published in Kluwer's Human-Computer Interaction Series volume 7 ISBN: 1-4020-2729-X August 2004

2005

On the acoustic, prosodic and gestural characteristics of “m-like” sounds in Swedish”
Loredana Cerrato
in Gothenburg papers in theoretical linguistics, J. Alwood (ed) Feedback in Spoken Interaction- Nordtalk Symposium 2003, January 2005, p. 18-31

The communicative function of "sì" in Italian and "ja" in Swedish: an acoustic analysis (pdf)
Loredana Cerrato
in proceedings of Fonetik 2005, Göteborg, 23-25 maj 2005, p. 41-44

A method for the detection of communicative head nods in expressive speech (abstract)
Loredana Cerrato and Gunilla Svanfeldt
Gothenburg papers in Theoretical Linguistics 92 : Proceedings from
The Second Nordic Conference on Multimodal Communication April 7-8 Göteborg 05, Sweden p. 153-165
also in Proceedings of AIVSP2004, Padua, Italy (CD-ROM publication).

Linguistic functions of head nods (abstract)
Loredana Cerrato
Gothenburg papers in Theoretical Linguistics 92 : Proceedings from The Second Nordic Conference on Multimodal Communication April 7-8 Göteborg 05, Sweden, p.137-152

The MUMIN annotation scheme for feedback, turn management and sequencing (prn)

Jens Allwood, Loredana Cerrato, Kristiina Jokinen , Costanza Navarretta, and Patrizia Paggio
Gothenburg papers in Theoretical Linguistics 92 : Proceedings from The Second Nordic Conference on Multimodal Communication April 7-8 Göteborg 05, Sweden, p. 91-109

The MUMIN Multimodal Dialogue Annotations (abstract)
Jens Allwood, Loredana Cerrato, Kristiina Jokinen, Costanza Navarretta and Patrizia Paggio
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Presented at NODALIDA 2005

A coding scheme for the annotation of feedback, turn management and sequencing phenomena (pdf)
Jens Allwood, Loredana Cerrato, Kristiina Jokinen, Costanza Navarretta and Patrizia Paggio
In Martin et al (eds) Proceedings of the LREC2006 Workshop on Multimodal Corpora. From Multimodal Behaviour to Usable Models. Genova, Italy, May 2006, pp.38-42.

Articles to appear

Evaluation of the expressivness of a Swedish talking head in the context of human-machine interaction (pdf)
Beskow, J. & Cerrato, L.
to be published in Proceedings of GSCP 2004, Padua,  Italy, November 2004

The communicative function of short expressions in Italian and Swedish:
The role of prosody
(abstract)

Cerrato, L. & D’ Imperio, M.P.
Paper presented at the International conference of Spoken Communication held in Naples 23-25 feb. 06 and to be published in La comunicazione parlata, Liguori, Naples, Italy: 183-203 (in press)

 

The MUMIN Coding Scheme for the Annotation of Feedback, Turn Management and Sequencing Phenomena.

     Allwood, J., Cerrato, L., Jokinen, K., Navarretta, C. & Paggio, P.
Submitted to Special issue of the International Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation: Multi-modal Corpora for modelling human multi-modal behaviour.

Synthesis and Evaluation of Expressiveness in a Swedish Talking Head Trained on a Multi-modal Expressive Speech Corpus.

Beskow, J. & Cerrato, L.
Submitted to Special issue of the International Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation: Multi-modal Corpora for modelling human multi-modal behaviour.