Recent Talks and Interviews
- Mar 2021 @ Amazon: Invited talk on Emotion and Behavioral Tracking in the Lab and in the Wild
- Oct 2019 @ SLSP, Ljubljana, Slovenia: Plenary talk on Emotion and Behavioral Tracking in the Lab and in the Wild
- Jul 2019 @ Voice Summit, Newark, NJ: Voice Assistants are both marvelous and god awefull!
- May 2018 @ WSJ/Marketwatch: Interview on how AI can predict mood and emotions (interview given as CEO of Behavioral Signal Technologies). For press clippings and interviews related to Behavioral Signals please check out the website.
- Feb 2017 @ ICNC, Silicon Valley, CA: Cognitive Multimodal Processing: from Signal to Behavior (v3) (Distinguished Lecture)
- Mar 2017 @ ICASSP, New Orleans, LA: Tutorial on Multimodal Signal Processing, Saliency and Summarization
- May 2015 @ Athena RC, Athens, GR: Distributional Semantic Models for Affective Text Analysis and Grammar Induction (v9)
- Jan 2015 @ 3rd Signal Processing Jam, Athens, GR: Cognitive Multimodal Processing: from Signal to Behavior (v2)
- May 2014 @ Google Research, New York City and IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY: Distributional Semantic Models for Affective Text Analysis and Grammar Induction
- Nov 2014 @ RFMIR workshop (ICMI 2014), Istanbul, TR: Cognitive Multimodal Processing: from Signal to Behavior
- Aug 2014 @ CMU, Pittsburgh and Sep 2014, Demokritos RC, Athens, GR: Distributional Semantic Models for Affective Text Analysis and Grammar Induction (v8)
- May 2014 @ Google Research, New York City and IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY: Distributional Semantic Models for Affective Text Analysis and Grammar Induction
- May 2014 @ UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: Summarization and Emotion Tracking in Movies
- Apr 2014 @ Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, CA: Distributional Semantic Models for Affective Text Analysis and Grammar Induction
- Mar 2014 @ U.Dallas, Texas: Semantic-Affective Models for Audio, Video and Text Processing
- Nov 2013 @ Daghstul, GE (invited stimulus talk for the computational audio seminar): Semantic-Affective Models for Multimedia Data
- Sep 2013 @ SAIL, USC, Los Angeles, CA: Lexical Semantic Spaces: A Review
- Feb 2013 @ U.Trento, Italy: Lexical Cognitive Networks with Application to
Semantic Similarity Computation and Affective Text Analysis
- Oct 2012 @ ICSI, Berkeley, CA:
Building Lexical Cognitive Networks for Web Corpora with
Application to Semantic Similarity Computation and Affective Text Analysis
- Jun 2012 @ ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ: Spectral Moment and Micro-Modulations Features for Robust ASR
Project News
- Dec 2022: Multiparty Dialogue Database released by Amazon - for details see this publication.
- June 2020: Behavioral Signals releases OliverAPI that tracks emotions and behaviors from voice
- Jan 2019: BabyRobot project concludes showcasing how portable robotic setups can be used in schools for special education children - for details see the BabyRobot website
- Mar 2018: BabyRobot project showcases some fascinating new use-cases for child-robot communication - for details see the BabyRobot concept videos
- Jan 2016: BabyRobot project starts with the kickoff at NTUA, Athens, Greece. For more information see the BabyRobot website
- Dec 2015: SpeDial project concludes producing exciting results for hot-spot detection and root-cause analysis in spoken dialogue systems also
receiving excellent reviews!
- Apr 2014: updated multilingual data for grammar induction tasks (including ontologies) are now available at the
the PortDial website.
- Feb 1, 2014: we officially start the BabyAffect project
with a large scale longitudinal collection of audio-visual data for autistic spectrum and typical developing children.
- Dec 2014: kick-of for the EU-IST SpeDial project on
spoken dialogue analytics in Luxembourg
Awards and Competitions
- Sep 2023: Elected to the grade of ISCA fellow (class of 2023) for "contributions to human-centered speech and multimodal signal analysis and conversational technologies."
- Feb 2018: The NTUA-SLP team wins 1st place in the multi-class twitter emotion classification task at SemEval 2018, 2nd and 3rd place at various other tasks
- Jan 2016: Elected to the grade of IEEE fellow (class of 2016) for "contributions to human-centered speech and multimodal signal analysis."
- Feb 23, 2016: The NTUA-USC team wins (1st place among 19 groups in) the
tweeter sentiment analysis task 4-B (topic)
SemEval 2016 competition using semantic-affective model adaptation techniques.
Congrats to Elissavet and the team!
- Sep 18, 2014: The USC SAIL team wins the Cognitive Load Sub-Challenge at the
Speaker Trait Challenge at Interspeech 2014. Way to go Maarten and team!
- Apr 30, 2014: The USC SAIL team scores 2nd place in the
SemEval 2014 sentiment analysis competition (twitter sarcasm sub-task)
using semantic-affective models.
- Dec 1, 2013: The PortDial sponsored SemEval 2014 grammar induction task is up and running.
For more details see the official SemEval 2014 website
and the PortDial website.
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