Abstract This article shows that, in Miguel de Unamuno, both philosophy and literature contribute to an intellectual project that has do with life. I will argue Cómo se hace una novela , presents a of life understands human as intersubjective creation. We create the same way we novel, is say, through dialectics. reveals idea about which our ontological potential manifests itself novelistic crea...

This paper presents a preliminary experiment in modelling the emergence of repertoires of complex words in a population of agents. Agents that can produce words, which are strings of (abstract) phonemes, try to imitate each other as well as possible. For this they do not only have to learn each other’s words, but also each other’s phonemes. But they cannot know a priori which sounds are actuall...

This paper describes the language output component of the Sundial spoken dialogue system. Following a dialogue planning decision to produce an utterance, an utterance planning component derives a semantic description drawing on a model of speakers' knowledge of the domain. This semantic description is linguistically real-ised by a generation component which draws on a bi-directional lexicon-gra...

The papers in this volume demonstrate the pervasiveness of multimodal utterances. The collaborative construction of utterances is also well known. In this chapter we explore utterances that are both multimodal and collaboratively constructed; in particular, utterances in which the gesture of one participant stands in a relation of mutual elaboration with the talk of another participant. Drawing...

1 Proper contexts Frege (1918-1919) famously makes a caveat concerning his doctrine of sense and reference: there are some special expressions like 'here', 'today' and 'that', that cannot by themselves express senses (and, therefore, cannot have references). Something else is necessary, namely, the extra-linguistic context in which the particular tokens of words of this kind occur. Therefore, i...

Types of utterances that belong to meta-levels of activity have been singled out in spoken task-focused dialogues between subjects accomplishing a matching task with no visual contact. The types include activity management and planning, global and local (e.g. signals of activity phase); explicit evaluation of the state of joint project, communicative utterances for conversation management; back...

Due to various difficulties in pronunciation, utterances by nonnative speakers may be lacking in fluency. The Japanese pronunciation is said to have mora-synchronism, and, therefore, we assume that the disfluency may cause larger variations in vowel durations. Analyses of vowel (and CV) durations were conducted for Japanese sentence utterances by 2 non-Japanese speakers and one Japanese speaker...

This study investigated the relation between mothers' utterances and theory of mind in a longitudinal study involving three time points over 1 year. Mothers were asked to describe some pictures to 82 children at all three time points. Mothers' use of mental state utterances in these descriptions at early time points was consistently correlated with later theory-of-mind understanding. This was t...

We address an issue of out-of-grammar (OOG) utterances in spoken dialogue systems by generating help messages for novice users. Help generation for OOG utterances is a challenging problem because language understanding (LU) results based on automatic speech recognition (ASR) results for such utterances are always erroneous as important words are often misrecognized or missed from such utterance...