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Aggression Detection in Speech Using Sensor and Semantic Information

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2012)

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By analyzing a multimodal (audio-visual) database with aggressive incidents in trains, we have observed that there are no trivial fusion algorithms to successfully predict multimodal aggression based on unimodal sensor inputs. We proposed a fusion framework that contains a set of intermediate level variables (meta-features) between the low level sensor features and the multimodal aggression detection [1]. In this paper we predict the multimodal level of aggression and two of the meta-features: Context and Semantics. We do this based on the audio stream, from which we extract both acoustic (nonverbal) and linguistic (verbal) information. Given the spontaneous nature of speech in the database, we rely on a keyword spotting approach in the case of verbal information. We have found the existence of 6 semantic groups of keywords that have a positive influence on the prediction of aggression and of the two meta-features.

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Lefter, I., Rothkrantz, L.J.M., Burghouts, G.J. (2012). Aggression Detection in Speech Using Sensor and Semantic Information. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_81

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