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New Turkish multimodal corpus aims to improve conversational AI turn-taking

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Researchers have introduced Real-TurnTurk, a new multimodal Turkish conversational dataset designed to improve turn-taking prediction in synchronous dialogue systems. The dataset comprises synchronized video, audio, and transcriptions of unscripted dyadic interactions. To predict turn transitions, the study employs a Genetic Algorithm to optimize interpretable decision rules based on visual, acoustic, and linguistic features, utilizing a hybrid AND-OR rule representation. AI

IMPACT This dataset could advance research in multimodal dialogue systems and improve the naturalness of conversational AI by better modeling turn-taking dynamics.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ahmet Tu\u{g}rul Bayrak, Fatma Nur Korkmaz, Bekir Berker T\"urker, Mustafa Serta\c{c} T\"urkel, Alper Kaplan ·

    Real-TurnTurk: A Multimodal Turkish Corpus for Turn-Taking Prediction

    arXiv:2608.22071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turn-taking is a basic organizational feature of human conversation and remains difficult to model in natural, synchronous dialog systems. While existing research has explored multimodal approaches and large language models for tu…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Real-TurnTurk: A Multimodal Turkish Corpus for Turn-Taking Prediction

    A multimodal Turkish dialogue dataset and genetic algorithm-optimized interpretable rules are used to predict turn transitions from visual, acoustic, and linguistic cues.

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