Recent advance in digital storage technology has enabled us to archive a large volume of video data. Thanks to this trend, we have archived more than 1,800 hours of video data from a daily Japanese news show in the last ten years. When considering the effective use of such a large news video archive, we assumed that analysis of its chronological and semantic structure becomes important. We also...

a Michael M. Danchak, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, [email protected] b Kimberly Kenyon, State University of New York at Albany, [email protected] Abstract -Threaded discussion has the potential to be a very effective tool for learning online. However, it does not naturally fit well into engineering and science courses because of the factual nature of these domains. Our experience with thi...

Conversation is central to human interaction. The usual way to conduct asynchronous “conversations” over the Internet is to post e-mail messages on an electronic bulletin board, with messages organized by topic. However, such environments do not allow us to exploit the richness of conversation theory for effective collaboration. This presentation will review key elements of conversation theory ...

We describe research in progress on a dialogue system that simulates social conversation between animated characters representing a person with Alzheimer's Disease and his caregiver. The goal of the research is to enable caregivers to practice techniques to improve their assistive conversational skills. These skills are expected to reduce caregiver stress and to improve the quality of life of p...

objectives: the spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. the purpose of this study was to compare conversation, freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of mean length of utterance (mlu), type-token ratio (ttr), and the numbe...

le narrateur proustien – comme d’ailleurs l’auteur lui-même – est élevé dans un milieu familial et social où l’intelligence était hautement valorisée et appréciée. pour lui, comme pour le philosophe gilles deleuze, « rien ne donne plus à penser que ce qui se passe dans la tête d’un sot » (2003, 101). c’est ainsi qu’a la recherche du temps perdu, souvent considéré comme le magnifique monument li...

This study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate EFL learners’ idiom learning. The participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in Zabansara Language School in Khorramabad based on their scores on a Preliminary English Test (PET) and an idiom test piloted in...

The Swiss developer of high quality, high-speed signal acquisition products, reveals his secrets in a conversation with EPIC's technology manager for quantum and PICs.

In this paper, we present a computational approach to understanding and augmenting the conversational knowledge process. We introduce the concept of the conversation quantization, a technique of approximating a continuous flow of conversation by a series of conversation quanta that represent points of the discourse. To investigate what the nature of conversation quanta is, we attempt to extract...

Given the increasing amount of conversation data, techniques to automatically acquire information about conversation participants have become more important. Towards this goal, we investigate the problem of conversation entailment, a task that determines whether a given conversation discourse entails a hypothesis about the participants. This paper describes the challenges related to conversatio...