Publications

Ngo Trong, T., Jokinen, K. and Hautamäki, V. Enabling Spoken Dialogue Systems for Low-resourced Languages: End-to-end Dialect Recognition for North Sami, Ninth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2018), Singapore, 2018. Fulltext. ***Best Paper Award***

Jokinen, K. Researching Less-Resourced Languages – the DigiSami Corpus, LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

Jokinen, K. Conversational Gaze Modelling in First Encounter Robot Dialogues, Proceedings of the LREC workshop on Language and Body in Real Life and Multimodal Corpora (LBRL-MMC), Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

Jokinen, K. and Ngo Trong, T. Laughter and Body Movements as Communicative Actions in Encounters, Proceedings of the LREC workshop on Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions (AREA), Miyazaki, Japan, 2018

Ngo Trong, T. and Jokinen, K. Conversational topic modelling in first encounter dialogues, The 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Bielefeld, Germany, 2017.

Jokinen, K. and Wilcock, G. Expectations and First Experience with a Social Robot, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Bielefeld, Germany, 2017.

Wilcock, G. and Jokinen, K. Bringing Cognitive Infocommunications to small language communities, 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom 2017), Debrecen, Hungary, 2017.

Wilcock, G. The Evolution of Text Annotation Frameworks, Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, 193-207, Springer, 2017.

Grönroos, S-A., Hiovain, K, Smit, P., Rauhala, I., Jokinen, K., Kurimo, M. and Virpioja, S. Low-Resource Active Learning of Morphological Segmentation, Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT), 2016.

Jokinen, K. and Wilcock, G. Double Topic Shifts in Open Domain Conversations: Natural Language Interface for a Wikipedia-based Robot Application, COLING Workshop on Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering (OKBQA), Osaka, Japan, 2016.

Wilcock, G., Jokinen, K. and Yamamoto, S. What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias, Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, Osaka, Japan, 2016.

Lopez, A., Ratni, A., Ngo Trong, T., Olaso, J.M., Montenegro, S., Lee, M., Haider, F., Schlögl, S., Chollet, G., Jokinen, K., Petrovska D., Sansen, H. and Torres, M. I. LifeLine Dialogues with Roberta, Proceedings of the Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology, Machine Learning and Big Data 2016 (FETLT’16), Seville, Spain, 2016.

Jokinen, K., Ngo Trong, T. and Wilcock, G. Body movements and laughter recognition: experiments in first encounter dialogues, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI), 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016), Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

Ngo Trong, T., Hiovain, K. and Jokinen, K. Laughing and co-construction of common ground in human conversations, The 4th European and 7th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016.

Muron, M. and Jokinen, K. Automated Questions for Chat Dialogues with a Student Office Virtual Agent, The Second Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, USA, 2016.

Hiovain, K. and Jokinen, K. Acoustic Features of Different Types of Laughter in North Sami Conversational Speech, Proceedings of the LREC Workshop Just talking – casual talk among humans and machines, Portorož, Slovenia, 2016

Jokinen, K., Ngo Trong, T. and Hautamäki, V. Variation in Spoken North Sami Language, Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, USA, 2016. Fulltext.

Ngo Trong, T., Hautamäki, V. and Lee, K.A.. Deep Language: a comprehensive deep learning approach to end-to-end language recognition, Speaker Odyssey, Bilbao, Spain, 2016. Fulltext.

Jokinen, Kristiina, Katri Hiovain, Niklas Laxström, Ilona Rauhala and Graham Wilcock. DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami language, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2016), 2016. Fulltext.

Wilcock, Graham, Niklas Laxström, Juho Leinonen, Peter Smit, Mikko Kurimo and Kristiina Jokinen Towards SamiTalk: a Sami-speaking robot linked to Sami Wikipedia, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2016), 2016. Fulltext.

Laxström, Niklas, Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen. Internationalisation and localisation of spoken dialogue systems, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2016), 2016. Fulltext.

Rauhala, Ilona. The variation of adjective attributes in Saami, XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, 2015. Slides.

Wilcock, Graham and Kristiina Jokinen. Multilingual WikiTalk: Wikipedia-based talking robots that switch languages, 16th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2015), Prague, 2015.

Jokinen, Kristiina. Multimodal engagement in the WikiTalk robot application, International Workshop on Speech Robotics (IWSR 2015), Dresden, 2015.

Laxström, Niklas, Pau Giner, and Santhosh Thottingal. Content Translation: Computer assisted translation tool for Wikipedia articles, 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 194-197, 2015. Fulltext.

Grönroos, Stig-Arne, Kristiina Jokinen, Katri Hiovain, Mikko Kurimo, and Sami Virpioja. Pohjoissaamen morfologisen segmentaation aktiivinen oppiminen pienin resurssein, XXIX Fonetiikan päivät, 2015

Laxström, Niklas, and Antti Kanner. Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki for Finno-Ugric dictionaries, First International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages 75-86, 2015. Fulltext.

Grönroos, Stig-Arne, Kristiina Jokinen, Katri Hiovain, Mikko Kurimo, and Sami Virpioja. Low-Resource Active Learning of North Sami Morphological Segmentation, First International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages 20-33, 2015. Fulltext.

Jokinen, Kristiina. Open-domain Interaction and Online Content in the Sami Language, Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), 2014. Fulltext.

Jokinen, Kristiina, and Graham Wilcock. Community-based Resource Building and Data Collection, Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU 2014), 201-206, 2014. Fulltext.

Laxström, Niklas, Kristiina Jokinen, and Graham Wilcock. Situated Interaction in a Multilingual Spoken Information Access Framework, Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, 161-171, 2014.