This paper extends language understanding and plan inference to information graphics. We identify the kinds of communicative signals that appear in information graphics, describe how we utilize them in a Bayesian network that hypothesizes the graphic's intended message, and discuss the performance of our implemented system. This work is part of a larger project aimed at making information graph...

The Social Performance Framework describes an approach to modularize the design of Embodied Conversational Agents. The focus is on the problem of generating verbal and nonverbal behavior that carries out an agent’s communicative intent. The framework proposes modules and corresponding XML based interfaces that make a very clear distinction between intent and behavior. This division of labor bet...

In Pakistani corporate set-ups, proficiency in English is taken as competence communication; other important aspects of communicative are overlooked. The research carried out so far from the point view Management and Organizational Behavior none linguistic perspective. current study an attempt to find relationship between capital part Communicative Competence employees' job performance via sati...

This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at thei...

Recent work suggests that variation in online language production reflects the fact that speech is information-theoretically efficient for communication. We apply this idea to studying the offline, structural properties of language, asking whether lexical properties may similarly reflect communicative pressures. We present evidence for the Communicative Lexicon Hypothesis (CLH): human lexical s...

Gestures are an integral part of speaking. They allow expression of thoughts that are difficult to articulate. They promote fluency of speech. Can gestures also facilitate reasoning, problem solving, and other cognitive processes? In the present task, people assembled an object and then made a video explaining how to assemble, using speech and gesture or gesture alone. A control group merely re...

While intentions are at the center of communication theories such as Relevance Theory, and also of theories of action in general, the interaction between communicative and non-communicative intentions has not been much investigated within the relevance-theoretic framework. This paper discusses Bratman’s (1987) Theory of Planning, which recognizes the critical role of intentions in governing our...

We present a way to mix the lower control of agents with the high level specifications of their goals. This paper addresses various topics required to animate virtual humans in a distributed way such as combining primary actions into tasks, using verbal communication between virtual humans and directing them with high level orders. Our models have been tested into a multi-languages / multi-modu...