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This paper deals with the results of a machine learning experiment conducted on annotated gesture data from two case studies (Danish and Estonian). The data concern mainly facial displays, that are annotated with attributes relating to shape and dynamics, as well as communicative function. The results of the experiments show that the granularity of the attributes used seems appropriate for the task of distinguishing the desired communicative functions. This is a promising result in view of a future automation of the annotation task.
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Jokinen, K., Navarretta, C., Paggio, P. (2008). Distinguishing the Communicative Functions of Gestures. In: Popescu-Belis, A., Stiefelhagen, R. (eds) Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction. MLMI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85853-9_4
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