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Junichi Yamazaki, Interactive Listening to Structured
Speech Content on the Internet, Proceeding of ICVoxer
SLP’98 pp.1627-1630, 1998.
[2] Nigel Ward, Using Prosodic Clues to Decide When toProduce Back-channel Utterances, Proceeding of ICSLP’96 pp.1728-1731, 1996.
[3] Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano,Takeshi Kawabata, Implementation of Coordinative
Nodding Behavior on Spoken Dialog Systems, Proceeding of ICSLP’98 pp.2347-2350, 1998.

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Meeting System for Bi-Directional Speech Dialog, Eurospeech’99, pp.2471-2474 (1999).