Text and speech corpora for training a tale telling robot have been designed, recorded and annotated. The aim of these corpora is to study expressive storytelling behaviour, and to help in designing expressive prosodic and co-verbal variations for the artificial storyteller). A set of 89 children tales in French serves as a basis for this work. The tales annotation principles and scheme are des...

In this demo and poster paper, we describe the concept and implementation of an ontology-based storyteller for fairy tales. Its main functions are (i) annotating the tales by extracting timeline information, characters and dialogues with corresponding emotions expressed in the utterances, (ii) populating an existing ontology for fairy tales with the previously extracted information and (iii) us...

The hippocampus has classically been associated with episodic memory, but is sometimes also recruited during semantic memory tasks, especially for the skilled exploration of familiar information. Cognitive control mechanisms guiding semantic memory search may benefit from the set of cognitive processes at stake during musical training. Here, we examined using functional magnetic resonance imagi...

Single genomic loci are often related to specific cellular functions, genetic diseases, or pathogenic infections. Visualization of single genomic loci in live human cells is currently of great interest, yet it remains challenging. Here, we describe a strategy for live cell imaging of single genomic loci by combining transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) with a quantum dot labelling tec...

The beauty of Malay proverbs can not only be seen through the use poetic language but also common sense. A beautiful proverb with a deep meaning is result community's high appreciation and sense towards environment that underlies life. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify elephant -based domain in based on corpus data obtained book Proverbs: Study Meaning Value written by Zaitul Azma...

Much scholarship has looked at the uses, functions, and originsof proverbs. This study describes form of proverbs in Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken southwest China. A preliminary analysisdemonstrates that carefully crafted Nuosu reflectsintricate artistry multiple aesthetic features language,making their memorable transmissible across generations.One unusual feature to surface is freque...

Sustainable water management is one of the global grand challenges of our time. Tackling this challenge through corrective actions would require the participation of the general public, a public with sound awareness of the challenge and commitment. One such awareness raising intervention could be through the use of water symbolism and proverbs, targeted to particular society. Water has the diff...

This study was designed to investigate (a) the effects of the nature of contingent vs. noncontingent social reinforcement upon the level of abstraction in schizophrenics as measured on a proverbs task, (b) the generalization of this behavior to another verbal conceptual task administered under neutral conditions, (c) the predictive and construct validity of the UUmann-Giovannoni Process-Reactiv...

Proverbs have been collectively created by folk people of the human society since ancient times. They are spread widely from mouth to mouth. As concisely and comparatively stereotyped artist statements, they have summed up the rich wisdom and universal experience of the masses, becoming the important carrier of the history of social attitudes. Family instructions are specially written for ancie...