Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, July 8, 2022
*ELRA releases the Corpus of Interactions between Seniors and an
Empathic Virtual Coach in Spanish, French and Norwegian**
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ELRA is pleased to announce the release of the Corpus of Interactions
between Seniors and an Empathic Virtual Coach in Spanish, French and
Norwegian. This corpus was built within the EMPATHIC project (Empathic,
Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent
Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly), funded within the European Union's
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. It consists of video
recordings, obtained through a webcam. These recordings were made during
user conversations with a Wizard of Oz (WOZ) and with an automatic
dialogue system. Several topics were involved in the conversations that
were carried out in three different languages: Spanish, French and
Norwegian.
The corpus can be found in the ELRA Catalogue under the following links
and references: *Corpus of Interactions between Seniors and an Empathic
Virtual Coach in Spanish, French and Norwegian
<http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0414/>* ISLRN:
*631-345-309-445-9 <https://islrn.org/resources/631-345-309-445-9>*
For more information and/or questions, please write to cont...@elda.org.
*About EMPATHIC project*
The purposes of EMPATHIC project are to research, innovate and validate
new paradigms, laying the foundation for future generations of
Personalised Virtual Coaches to help elderly people to live
independently. The following partners collaborated on this project: the
University of Basque Country UPV/EHU (Spain), OSATEK (Spain), the
University of Barcelona (Spain), Oslo University Hospital (Norway),
e-Seniors Association (France), Tunstall Healthcare (Spain and Sweden),
Intelligent Voice (United Kingdom), Acapela Group (Belgium), Institut
Mines-Télécom (France), and Università degli Studi della Campania “L.
Vanvitelli” (Italy).
To find out more about EMPATHIC project, please visit:
http://www.empathic-project.eu/
*About ELRA*
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).
To find out more on ELRA, please visit: http://www.elra.info/en/
<http://catalogue.elra.info/>