Anik Dey


2017

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Zara Returns: Improved Personality Induction and Adaptation by an Empathetic Virtual Agent
Farhad Bin Siddique | Onno Kampman | Yang Yang | Anik Dey | Pascale Fung
Proceedings of ACL 2017, System Demonstrations

2016

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Zara The Supergirl: An Empathetic Personality Recognition System
Pascale Fung | Anik Dey | Farhad Bin Siddique | Ruixi Lin | Yang Yang | Yan Wan | Ho Yin Ricky Chan
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

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Zara: A Virtual Interactive Dialogue System Incorporating Emotion, Sentiment and Personality Recognition
Pascale Fung | Anik Dey | Farhad Bin Siddique | Ruixi Lin | Yang Yang | Dario Bertero | Yan Wan | Ricky Ho Yin Chan | Chien-Sheng Wu
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

Zara, or ‘Zara the Supergirl’ is a virtual robot, that can exhibit empathy while interacting with an user, with the aid of its built in facial and emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, and speech module. At the end of the 5-10 minute conversation, Zara can give a personality analysis of the user based on all the user utterances. We have also implemented a real-time emotion recognition, using a CNN model that detects emotion from raw audio without feature extraction, and have achieved an average of 65.7% accuracy on six different emotion classes, which is an impressive 4.5% improvement from the conventional feature based SVM classification. Also, we have described a CNN based sentiment analysis module trained using out-of-domain data, that recognizes sentiment from the speech recognition transcript, which has a 74.8 F-measure when tested on human-machine dialogues.

2014

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A Hindi-English Code-Switching Corpus
Anik Dey | Pascale Fung
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

The aim of this paper is to investigate the rules and constraints of code-switching (CS) in Hindi-English mixed language data. In this paper, we’ll discuss how we collected the mixed language corpus. This corpus is primarily made up of student interview speech. The speech was manually transcribed and verified by bilingual speakers of Hindi and English. The code-switching cases in the corpus are discussed and the reasons for code-switching are explained.

2013

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51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
Anik Dey | Sebastian Krause | Ivelina Nikolova | Eva Vecchi | Steven Bethard | Preslav I. Nakov | Feiyu Xu
51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop

2012

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Using English Acoustic Models for Hindi Automatic Speech Recognition
Anik Dey | Ying Li | Pascale Fung
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing