Oral argumentation skills have become a ‘hot topic’ within pragmatic language acquisition research as well didactical research. In this study, we first discuss characteristics specific to oral which, compared written argumentation, has its own mediality and therefore requirements. To reconstruct different levels of school children in grades 2, 4 6, collected corpus 180 peer discussions without ...

Curiosity is an important factor that favors independent and individualized learning in children. Research suggests it also a competence can be fostered by training specific metacognitive skills information-searching behaviors. In this light, we develop conversational agent helps children generate curiosity-driven questions, encourages their use to lead autonomous explorations gain new knowledg...

A Situated Conversational Assistant (SCA) is a system with sensing, acting and speech synthesis/recognition abilities, which engages in physically situated natural language conversation with human partners and assists them in carrying out tasks. This thesis addresses some prerequisites towards an ideal truly cooperative SCA through the development of a computational model of embodied, situated ...

This article explains how new abilities are acquired when speaking a language that I call the Soral language. The is created with aid of computer technology organizes words in way enables our brain to attach meaning sound words. following language.
 
 ability understand have never been heard before or seen book.
 Improved recall from memory.
 Larger vocabulary.
 convers...

This book has appeared in the series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies: monographs from 50 up to 150 pages about specific topics subjects computational linguistics. The intended audience of are researchers and graduate students NLP, AI, related fields. I define myself as a linguist; my review is perspective “random” linguistics researcher wanting learn more this topic or looking...

In 2019, media reports raised awareness about privacy and security violations in Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) like Alexa, Siri Google. Users report that they perceive CUI as creepy are concerned their privacy. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) several other laws across the globe, give users right to control processing of data, for example by requesting deletion data...

UNLABELLED Several recent studies have suggested that young children who stutter (CWS) tend to show depressed lexical performance relative to peers. Given the developmental literature as well as several studies of verb processing in individuals who stutter, verbs may pose a particular challenge for this group. The purpose of the present study was to examine verb use in CWS. In theory, if young ...

Abstract Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes an intuitive way. With the latest advances voice-controlled devices, natural language processing, AI general, such received increased attention recent years. Technically, conversational recommenders are usually complex multi-component applications often...