We researched the impact of gendered pedagogical agents on student attitudes for math, motivation and achievement in math, within the context of an adaptive tutoring software for high school mathematics. Learning companions emphasize perseverance by valuing effort in challenging tasks. They are also empathetic, as they reflect students’ emotional states. The results suggest that, across two stu...

The virtually unprecedented popularity of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in the United States and England was no less marked in France, as evidenced among other things by the commercial success of the eleven French translations that were produced within the period of ten months after its original publication. This and other indications of the significance of Stowe's novel for ...

Stance classification, which aims at detecting the stance expressed in text towards a specific target, is an emerging problem in sentiment analysis. A major difference between stance classification and traditional aspect-level sentiment classification is that the identification of stance is dependent on target which might not be explicitly mentioned in text. This indicates that apart from text ...