Facebook forms one of the most widely used online social networks, through which people manage their communication with diverse contacts or ‘friends’, ranging from members family and schoolmates to work colleagues popular cultural idols other people, whom they admire. Hence, it can be seen as an integral part people’s digital presence. Against this backdrop, aim paper is investigate ways polite...

Although intonation has been traditionally associated with the expression of attitudes and intentions on the part of the speaker, little is known about whether sociopragmatic factors, such as power or social distance, or situational ones, like physical distance or insistence, can constrain the use and felicity of pitch contours. This article investigates the felicity conditions underlying the c...

Children represent a potentially crucial user segment for conversational interfaces. Computer systems interacting with children need to be tailored for these users so that they will understand child intent and so that the child will have a positive and successful experience with the system. This study focuses on discourse analysis of spoken-language childmachine interactions. In particular, pol...

This paper shows the connection between emoticons and politeness in written computer-mediated communication. It studies if there are some differences in the use of emoticon between Czech and English written tweets. The assumptions about the use of emoticons were based on the use of greetings and thanks in real, faceto-face situations. The first assumption, that welcome greeting phrase would be ...

Emotion recognition algorithms for spoken dialogue applications typically employ lexical models that are trained on labeled in-domain data. In this paper, we propose a domainindependent approach to affective text modeling that is based on the creation of an affective lexicon. Starting from a small set of manually annotated seed words, continuous valence ratings for new words are estimated using...

Presidential debate is one of an interesting examples to be analyzed in terms politeness strategies. This research the strategies used by presidential candidates Indonesia a program during election period 2019. employed qualitative descriptive. The data were form spoken utterances which collected from participants. sources this videos and transcripts second fourth debates taken youtube google. ...