The concept of formality/contextuality is proposed as the most important dimension of variation between linguistic expressions. Formal communication conveys information explicitly, through the linguistic expression itself, whereas contextual communication conveys information implicitly, through the context of the expression. An empirical measure of formality, the F-score, is proposed, based on ...

The voice user interface is an important tool for realizing natural, easy-to-use humancomputer interfaces that can bridge the digital-divide. This paper gives an overview of voice interface applications and information access systems that operate over a telephone network. It also introduces some voice portal solutions that use speech recognition/synthesis and dialogue control and outlines the s...

This paper describes a system, based on statistical machine translation, that tries to remove from the output of an automatic audio transcription system non relevant words, such as: erroneously inserted functional words, filled pauses, interjections, word fragments, etc, as well as to repair, at a certain extent, ungrammatical pieces of sentences. For this work we decided to concentrate on a po...

This paper discusses an investigation into the Norwegian NoWaC corpus. We have compared this web corpus with one corpus of spoken language and one of written language. For nearly all variables that we look at, the web corpus sides with the written corpus, not the spoken one. Thus, despite including language samples from blogs and web forums, NoWaC does not appear to be more speechlike. One exce...

Much of the literature concerning participant relationships in academic writing has discussed features that project the stance, identity, or credibility of the writer, rather than examining how writers engage with readers. In contrast, this article focuses on strategies that presuppose the active role of addressees, examining six key ways that writers seek explicitly to establish the presence o...

In this article I reflect on – and celebrate - the increasing eclecticism creativity within Qualitative Psychology. Diverse forms of hybrid qualitative research, knowledge production dissemination are referenced, including performative, fictional digital iterations, potential for participant-centred, co-produced, democratic practices is promoted. The challenges posed by ‘post-qualitative’ think...

Cette étude explore les pratiques langagières informelles des femmes et hommes sur le site communautaire Reddit. Elle s’appuie un corpus de plus 91 000 commentaires publiés subreddit (forum) r/france analyse l’utilisation par six variables lexicales (les interjections, jurons, insultes mots grossiers, verlan, abréviations, anglicismes, vocabulaire spécifique à Reddit) ainsi que l’omission du ne...