Best Paper Award
Our paper titled "Quantifying Dominance in the MULTISIMO Corpus" has won the Best Paper Award at the 9th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications that took place in Budapest, Hungary on 22-24 August 2018!
European Commission Success Story
The European Commission has covered the outcome and impact of the Multisimo project as a Research & Innovation Success Story. In its own words, "as technology companies face growing pressure to tackle the ways their platforms are dividing societies, many hope artificial intelligence can foster less volatile online conversation. But researchers believe there is a lot more to learn about human dialogue before automatic content moderation can be effective. The EU-funded MULTISIMO project made a major effort to fill that knowledge gap by studying face-to-face conversations that could evolve into arguments. In just two years, the project produced award-winning research that provides new insight into the way people intuitively use speech and body language to try to resolve conflict. Read the full article here