Exposed disagreement is extremely rare in natural dialogue. Although informal argumentation features frequently in natural dialogue, the ways in which individuals make and evidence claims and position their opinions in relation to those of others is often achieved through more subtle and oblique methods. This makes natural dialogue distinct from more formal or institutionalised contexts. With i...

An important task for empathic agents is to provide social support, that is, to help alleviate emotional distress. In this paper, we select five types of verbal social support (sympathy, compliment, encouragement, advice, and teaching) and present our implementation in a prototype dialogue agent.

In this paper, we investigate whether the social goals of an individual can be recognized through analysis of the social actions indicated by their use of language. Specifically, we focus on recognizing when someone is pursuing power within a web forum. Individuals pursue power in order to increase their control over the actions and goals of the group. We cast the problem as social conversation...

As part of its continuing mission to serve trustees and staff of health foundations and corporate giving programs, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) brought together grantmakers, researchers, and public health professionals on May 20, 2004 to discuss the application of social marketing principles to health promotion and chronic disease prevention. As a behavior change technique, social marketing has ...

dr. mohammad al. talebi (born in tunis in 1921 a.d.) is a famous scholar and thinker of the arab world, he received his doctor's degree in history and is a professor in history. he has been the former dean of literature and social sciences college in tunis university. he has done many researches and has written various books on the history of islam the middle age), the islamic contemporary...

This paper proposes a way to improve the translation quality by using information on dialogue participants that is easily obtained from outside the translation component. We incorporated information on participants' social roles and genders into transfer rules and dictionary entries. An experiment with 23 unseen dialogues demonstrated a recall of 65% and a precision of 86%. These results showed...

The Philippine Social Protection Note series aims to disseminate experiences, good practices, and key findings from the Philippines on the topics related to social protection. It also aims to broaden the dialogue on social protection and stimulate public engagement in moving forward the policy agenda. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the ...

Technology Assessment in Social Context (TASC) is a research project funded by the Australian Research Council from 2006 to 2008. Its primary aim is to develop a framework for technology assessment (TA) for Australia. Drawing on international TA practice and ‘Social Impact Assessment’, TASC also presents a new TA approach for the international TA community. The novelty of TASC is its emphasis o...

This paper explores relations between narrative, memory and social representations by examining how social representations express the ways in which communities deal with the historical past. Drawing on a case study of social representations of the Brazilian public sphere, it shows how a specific narrative of origins re-invents history as a useful mythological resource for defending identity, b...

Joseph Selling rightly defines human intentions and motivations as part of human nature and an important determinant of the morality of personal actions. The thesis of this paper is that Selling’s view of agency, as focused on the individual, must be expanded to include social relationships and the social constitution of selves and communities. This requires cross-cultural dialogue about human ...