In recent years there has been an increasing interest concerning the integration of speech and other communication media in conversational systems, originating the so-called multimodal conversational systems. When several interaction modalities are available, users can receive more feedback from a conversational system and it can also receive more information from users, leading to a reduction ...

McGowan argues that everyday verbal bigotry makes a key contribution to the harms of discriminatory inequality, via mechanism she calls sneaky norm enactment. Part her account involves showing characteristic conversational interaction facilitates enactment is in fact generic one, which obtains wide range activities, namely, property having conventions appropriateness. I argue will be better-abl...

Chatbots are emerging as a promising platform for accessing and delivering healthcare services. The evidence is in the growing number of publicly available chatbots aiming at taking an active role provision prevention, diagnosis, treatment This article takes closer look how these address design aspects relevant to service provision, emphasizing Human-AI interaction transparency AI automation de...

We study the problem of imposing conversational goals/keywords on open-domain agents, where agent is required to lead conversation a target keyword smoothly and fast. Solving this enables application agents in many real-world scenarios, e.g., recommendation psychotherapy. The dominant paradigm for tackling 1) train next-turn classifier, 2) keyword-augmented response retrieval model. However, ex...

PURPOSE The present study examined the extent of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in children's conversational language use. METHOD Behavioral genetic analyses focused on conversational measures and 2 standardized tests from 380 twins (M = 7.13 years) during the 2nd year of the Western Reserve Reading Project (S. A. Petrill, K. Deater-Deckard, L. A. Thompson, L. ...