Academic year 2014-15
Modelling
| Degree: | Code: | Type: |
| Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science | 23103 | Optional subject |
| Bachelor's Degree in Telematics Engineering | 23107 | Optional subject |
| Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering | 23111 | Optional subject |
| ECTS credits: | 4 | Workload: | 100 hours | Trimester: | 3rd |
| Department: | Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies |
| Coordinator: | Leo Wanner |
| Teaching staff: | Leo Wanner, Mireia Farrús |
| Language: | Leo Wanner: Spanish, English (material) Mireia Farrús: Catalan, English (material) |
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Modern interaction in social media often does not follow the dialogue patterns of traditional communication. Often, we even do not know who is actually the person we communicate with. It is easy for our counterpart to pretend to be someone else or to pursue hidden objectives. On other side, the state of the art in the areas of computational interaction management, author/speaker profiling and biometrics makes significant advances. In this course, we will study strategies for interaction planning and recognition of the goals of the speaker, and work with techniques for speaker profile compilation - including such characteristics as native language, gender, age, social status, etc.- and biometric speaker recognition.
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| General competences |
Specific |
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Instrumental G1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis. G2. Capacity for organisation and planification. G3. Capacity for applying the knowledge to the analysis of situations and problem resolution. G4. Ability in information search and management. G5. Ability in decision taking. G6. Capacity for proper communication in oral and written forms in Catalan and Spanish, both in expert and inexpert audiences. G7. Capacity for communicating in academic and professional environments in both oral and written forms in English, both in expert and inexpert audiences. Interpersonal G8. Capacity for team working. G9. Capacity for working in international and interdisciplinar environments. G10. Capacity for leadership, coordination and initiative. Sistemicas G11. Capacity for applying with flexibility and creativity the acquired knowledgement and to adapt it to new contexts and situations. G12. Capacity for progressing in training and learning processes autonomously and continuously. G13. Capacity for recognising and understanding diversity and multiculturality. G14. Capacity for motivation for quality and achievement. G15. Capacity for generating new ideas. |
Computer science engineering IN1. Capacity for designing, developing, selecting and evaluating applications and computer systems, ensuring their reliability, security and qualilty, according to ethical principles and to the current legislation and regulations. IN2. Capacity for plannig,deploying and managing projects, services and computer systems in all fields, leding their implementation and continuous improvement, and assessing their economic and social impact. IN15. Knowledge and application of the fundamental principles and basic techniques of intelligent systems and their practical application. IN17. Capacity for identifying and analysing problems and designing, developing, implementing, verifying and documenting software solutions based on adequate knowledge of theories, models and current techniques. IN29. Capacity for acquiring, obtaining, formalising and representing human knowledge in a computable form for problem solving by computer at any scope, particularly those related to aspects of computing, perception and action in intelligent environments. IN30. Capacity for developing and evaluating interactive systems and for presenting complex information and its application to problem solving of individual computer interaction design. |
The course will be assessed for each of the activities that constitute the course: theory, seminars and practices. The evaluated elements and their corresponding weight in the course will be as determined in the following table:
| Elements | Weight | Able to retake |
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| THEORY | Final exam |
50% | 50% | yes |
| SEMINARS |
Participation in class |
10% | 10% | no |
| PRACTICES |
Project evaluation (professor) |
20% | 40% | no |
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Project evaluation (students) |
20% | |||
Theory and seminars will be evaluated by the teachers. Practice projects will be evaluated both by the teacher and by the students. The elements of the project to be assessed will be: (1) the realisation of the project, (2) a paper derived from the realisation of the project, and (3) the oral presentation of the project in class.
Module 1. Discourse analysis and generation (12h)
1.1 Communicative intention analysis (4h)
1.1.1 Parsing (2h, Leo Wanner)
1.1.2 Communicative intention (1h, Leo Wanner)
1.1.3 Discursive intention (1h, Leo Wanner)
1.2 Multimodal communication generation (6h)
1.2.1 Language (3h, Leo Wanner)
1.2.2 Gestures and facial expressions (1h, Leo Wanner)
1.2.3 Speech technologies (2h, Mireia Farrús)
1.3 Social avatars (2h, Leo Wanner)
Module 2. User Modelling and author profiling (2h, Leo Wanner)
Module 3. Sentiment Analysis (2h, Leo Wanner)
Module 4. Biometrics (2h, Mireia Farrús)
Theory
The classes will be comprised of magistral lectures on the contents specified in the previous section.
Seminars
The seminar classes will consist of two main activities:
1. Realization of exercises related to the theoretical content.
2. Analysis and discussion of current issues related to the theoretical content. To this end, recent articles from scientific conferences will be used, and focus will be given on the techniques used, and the impact of these technologies in today's society.
Practices
The practices will be based on a single project realisation along the course. The topic of the project will be related to the theoretical content of the course, it will be chosen by the student, and it will be done individually or in groups.
The methodology will be similar to that of a research project, emphasizing the following points:
1. Analysis of the state of the art.
2. Monitoring of the project.
3. Writing ot a scientific paper.
4. Peer review of the papers.
5. Oral or poster presentation of the project.