• Studies in Dialog Prediction
• The Communicative Functions of Animation in User Interfaces
• Using Prosody for Language Modeling
• Gaining User Rapport by Improving Naturalness of Synthesized Speech in Dialog Systems
• Language Modeling: Modeling Beyond Syntax

Interactive System Group has expertise in four research methods: corpus development and analysis, modeling, systems building, and experiments with human subjects.

We have developed tools and testbeds to support this work, and we also use standard tools: Didi, Switchboard,Praat, MaryTTS, PocketSphinx, Wavesurfer, Weka, Matlab, SRILM.