New Dimensions in Testimony: Digitally Preserving a Holocaust Survivor’s Interactive Storytelling

Traum, David; Jones, Andrew; Hays, Kia; Maio, Heather; Alexander, Oleg; Artstein, Ron; Debevec, Paul; Gainer, Alesia; Georgila, Kallirroi; Haase, Kathleen; Jungblut, Karen; Leuski, Anton; Smith, Stephen; Swartout, William

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“…The agent can also make statements about itself, as well as greetings and closings to maintain dialogue flow. Some previous applications using NPCEditor include virtual museum guides (Swartout et al, 2010), a system for coversation with Holocaust survivors (Traum et al, 2015), and a Facebook Messenger chatbot to answer sexual health questions (Brixey et al, 2017) Finally, the corpus serves as a repository for teaching and learning the language. As nearly all of the text entries are bilingual, learners and teachers alike can benefit from the translations.…”

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ChoCo: a multimodal corpus of the Choctaw language

Brixey

Artstein

2020

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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This paper presents a general use corpus for the Native American indigenous language Choctaw. The corpus contains audio, video, and text resources, with many texts also translated in English. The Oklahoma Choctaw and the Mississippi Choctaw variants of the language are represented in the corpus. The data set provides documentation support for the threatened language, and allows researchers and language teachers access to a diverse collection of resources.

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ChoCo: a multimodal corpus of the Choctaw language

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Artstein

2020

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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“…But there is reason to question whether the progressive extension of lifespans will proceed rapidly enough to allow any survivors of these catastrophes to give centennial testimony. In the face of such uncertainties, emerging forms of “postmemory,” including practices of vicarious testimony by second- and third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors, as well as technologically advanced efforts to facilitate life-like interactions with departed witnesses to past traumas, will likely proliferate as these centennials approach (Hirsch, 2012; Traum et al, 2015). Though controversial, such practices belong to a broader landscape of memory activism which will not become obsolete under conditions of extended longevity, but rather all the more urgent.…”

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Naturalizing the centennial: History, memory, and the limits of human lifespans

Morrow

2020

Memory Studies

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Recent studies of centennials focus on explaining the social and political contexts for such commemorations. This paper develops an alternative, naturalistic theory of these long-range anniversaries. The paper starts by describing the value of a naturalistic account of complex cultural formations, and by reviewing basic demographic and physiological facts underlying centennial observances. Next, the paper provides a novel taxonomy of three central social functions of centennials, highlighting their roles as standards of greatness, mirrors of progress, and spurs to renovation. Each of these functions reflects the existence of certain predictable limits to human lifespans. The paper concludes by considering some transformations in form and function that centennials might undergo in a potential future of extended longevity.

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“…Dialogue processing utilizes the NPCEditor dialogue manager (Leuski and Traum, 2011;Hartholt et al, 2013). The NLU/DM module interprets dialogue instructions and produces responses using statistical retrieval algorithms from prior dialogue system implementations (Traum et al, 2015;Lukin et al, 2018) which allow for a range of unconstrained speech input. This testing sce-nario uses a novel configuration with five categories of instructions: (1) wake (get a particular robot's attention), ( 2) waypoint navigation of one or more robots, (3) follow-behind commands, (4) inspection, and (5) patrol of a pre-defined area.…”

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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North

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This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which users can verbally issue search, navigate, and follow instructions to two robotic teammates: a simulated ground robot and an aerial robot. This flexible language and robotic platform takes advantage of existing tools for speech recognition and dialogue management that are compatible with new domains, and implements an inter-agent communication protocol (tactical behavior specification), where verbal instructions are encoded for tasks assigned to the appropriate robot.

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New Dimensions in Testimony: Digitally Preserving a Holocaust Survivor’s Interactive Storytelling

Cited by 44 publications

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ChoCo: a multimodal corpus of the Choctaw language

ChoCo: a multimodal corpus of the Choctaw language

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