This study analyzes the interaction patterns and knowledge construction process students used when discussing course-related content through asynchronous online discussions. Data included the outline of postings and transcripts of online messages from several group discussions in two educational psychology classes. Quantitative analysis included participation and interaction rates; qualitative ...

We propose a framework for analyzing episodic conversational activities in terms of expressed relationships between the participants and utterance content. We test the hypothesis that linguistic features which express such properties, e.g. tense, aspect, and person deixis, are a useful basis for automatic intentional discourse segmentation. We present a novel algorithm and test our hypothesis o...

This paper presents a case study of a class of students coblogging throughout the semester. The students collaboratively made sense of the course material. The class blogosphere became a repository of interpretations, reflections, opinions, monologues and dialogues about the course content. Over the course of the semester there was an aggregation of “sense made” that was “mined” by the students...

Filled pauses are ubiquitous in everyday speech. I investigated whether linguistic complexity of upcoming phrases affects filler rate at phrase boundaries in presentation speeches in Japanese. Filler rate at phrase boundaries increased monotonically with complexity of the following phrases. However, when the following phrase was composed of more than 11 Bunsetsu-phrases, the filler rate did not...

Rhetorical structuring is field approached mostly by research in natural language (pragmatic) interpretation. However, in natural language generation (NLG) the rhetorical structure plays an important part, in monologues and dialogues as well. Hence, several approaches in this direction exist. In most of these, the rhetorical structure is calculated and built in the framework of Rhetorical Struc...

The purpose of this study was to find the intrinsic elements and comparison between story prophet Musa a.s Yusuf in surah al-qosos yusuf Qur’an.Both have almost same life journey. is recorded various surahs only one surah. This research examines verses 1-70 1-111. used a qualitative descriptive method using data form dialogue texts monologues which showed elements. Intrinsic studied include cha...