Abstract This paper describes a large-scale bilingual corpus of spoken monologues and their simultaneous interpretation, which has been constructed at CIAIR. The corpus has the following characteristics: (1) English and Japanese speeches are recorded in parallel, (2) the data contains monologue speeches such as lecture and self-introduction, and (3) the exact beginning and ending times are prov...

Job interviews are an important tool for employee selection. When making hiring decisions, a variety of information from interviewees, such as previous work experience, skills, and their verbal and nonverbal communication, are jointly considered. In recent years, Social Signal Processing (SSP), an emerging research area on enabling computers to sense and understand human social signals, is bein...

To investigate the developmental emergence of the ability to perceive the multisensory coherence of native and non-native audiovisual fluent speech, we tested 4-, 8-10, and 12-14 month-old English-learning infants. Infants first viewed two identical female faces articulating two different monologues in silence and then in the presence of an audible monologue that matched the visible articulatio...

In recent times, information presentation has evolved towards sophisticated approaches that involve multi-modal aspects and character-based mediation. This paper presents a novel methodology for creating information presentations based on a dramatization of the content exposition in two respects. On one side, the author plots a character’s monologue that aims at achieving presentation goal and ...

Although there exists an impressive array of research methods in science education, all of this research is such that it specifies methods, which, in and through this specification, are made to be something special, something that human beings do not normally employ. There is also a question about how to deal with difference, a question that is sharpened when investigated from the perspective o...

This paper presents newly developed guidelines for prosodic annotation of German as a consensus system agreed upon by German intonologists. The DIMA system is rooted in the framework of autosegmental-metrical phonology. One important goal of the consensus is to make exchanging data between groups easier since German intonation is currently annotated according to different models. To this end, w...

This study examined durational cues at discourse boundaries in spontaneous speech in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) using a two-hour monologue corpus contributed by four elderly female speakers from the same dialectal region. Discourse labeling was done following the method of Fon et al. (2011). Two durational cues were examined: syllable duration and post-syllable pause duration. Results showed tha...

The current study investigated the role of discourse scaffolds embedded into vicarious learning environments in classroom learning. In the current study, one of three vicarious learning conditions with varying levels of discourse scaffolds preceded standard instruction on seven classroom days. An explanation condition included deep questions, course content and explanations. In a question condi...

The Automatic Content Linking Device (ACLD) is a justin-time retrieval system that monitors an ongoing conversation or a monologue and enriches it with potentially related documents, including transcripts of past meetings, from local repositories or from the Internet. The linked content is displayed in real-time to the participants in the conversation, or to users watching a recorded conversati...