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Talking Minds: The Study of Language in the Cognitive Sciences (Book Review)

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Making a thinking-talking head

This paper describes the Thinking-Talking Head; an interdisciplinary project that sits between and draws upon engineering/computer science and behavioural/cognitive science; research and performance; implementation and evaluation. The project involves collaboration between computer scientists, engineers, language technologists and cognitive scientists, and its aim is twofold (a) to create a 3-D...

Risk, precaution and science: towards a more constructive policy debate. Talking point on the precautionary principle.

Audio-visual speech asynchrony modeling in a talking head

An audio-visual speech synthesis system with modeling of asynchrony between auditory and visual speech modalities is proposed in the paper. Corpus-based study of real recordings gave us the required data for understanding the problem of modalities asynchrony that is partially caused by the coarticulation phenomena. A set of context-dependent timing rules and recommendations was elaborated in or...

Political Talking Partners and Civic Engagement: An Application of Egocentric Social Network Analysis in the Field of Political Science

for their valuable comments; however, all errors are my own. This is a work in progress; please do not cite or reference. Abstract: The existing literature on civic engagement in the United States has focused on face-to-face interactions as the key to acquiring both the desire and skills necessary to participate in civil society. However, few works have focused on the relationship between indiv...

Why The Future Of Science Must Be In Free Software

This essay is about free software. Nowadays the importance of software is increasing day after day, and more and more people are obliged to use software in their everyday life. This is why talking about software often means talking about people’s habits with all the relative consequences: economic and pseudophilosophical arguments are often mixed up. This essay is an attempt to give an objectiv...