In human–human interactions, entrainment is a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens when interlocutors mutually adapt their behaviors through the course of an interaction. This mutual behavioral dependency has been at the center of psychological studies of human communication for decades. Quantitative descriptors of the degree of entrainment can provide psychologists an objective method t...

Recent advances in neurosciences and psychology have provided evidence that affective phenomena pervade intelligence at many levels, being inseparable from the cognitionaction loop. Perception, attention, memory, learning, decisionmaking, adaptation, communication and social interaction are some of the aspects influenced by them. This work draws its inspirations from neurobiology, psychophysics...

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Introduction Drug consumption has become a social problem requiring political, social, and educational intervention in its prevention and treatment. In Latin America, the drug problem is highly related to the violence and the social exclusion of the metropolis. Forty percent of the 15-yearolds already smoke. On average, each person in the general population consumes approximately 6 kg of alcoho...

This paper has two main objectives. The first is to provide an overview of the CDT annotation design with special emphasis on the modeling of the interface between syntactic and morphological structure. Against this background, the second objective is to explain the basic fundamentals of how CDT is marked-up with semantic relations in accordance with the dependency principles governing the anno...

In Question Answering a major challenge is the fact that similar meaning is very often expressed with different surface realizations in questions and in sentences containing the answer. In this paper we propose an enriched syntax-based representation which helps deal with this widespread variability and provides a degree of generalization. We encode uncertainty about the syntactic structure of ...

Researchers in both educational and developmental psychology have suggested that children are not particularly adept hypothesis testers, and that their behavior can often appear irrational. However, a growing body of research also suggests that people do engage in rational inference on a variety of tasks. Recently researchers have begun testing the idea that reasoners may be sampling hypotheses...

Science research contributions to applied science have been staggering, to say the least, over the last 25 years. Almost every computer related field or discipline has made significant strides that have impacted every day life. The field of human-computer interaction has made such minor break-throughs, one could argue if it is really an independent field of study, or simply a subset of analysis...