There are ~900,000 new HIV infections among women every year, representing nearly half of all new HIV infections globally. In the US, nearly one-fifth of all new HIV infections occur among women, and women from racial and ethnic minority communities experience disproportionately high rates of new HIV infections. Thus, there is a need to develop and implement effective HIV prevention strategies ...

We carry out two studies on affective state modeling for communication settings that involve unilateral intent on the part of one participant (the evoker) to shift the affective state of another participant (the experiencer). The first investigates viewer response in a narrative setting using a corpus of documentaries annotated with viewer-reported narrative peaks. The second investigates affec...

Researchers, the Deaf community, teachers of deaf children and speech and language therapists all share a concern about how to improve deaf children’s written language skills. One part of literacy is story writing or narrative. A fi nding from a small number of studies is that children exposed to sign language from early childhood onwards achieve the highest level of bilingualism and become ski...

In this paper we will define narrative structure as characterized by a basic element, the narreme, which is here described as the basic unit of narrative structure, the smallest possible unit of the story. We annotated a full novel – "The Solid Mandala" (1966) by Nobel laureate Patrick White – combining two approaches: one is related to sentiment and opinion mining, including deeper aspects con...

This article uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to explore the development of counter-narrative European integration in Poland. It argues that systemic features EU power induce political actors in-between member states develop two types narratives. These narratives are aimed at dealing with state’s perceived lower status imposed by hegemonic narrative produced field’s dominant actors. Whereas ...

The present study focuses on the similarities and differences in language production between children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In addition, we investigated whether Theory of Mind (ToM), working memory, and response inhibition are associated with language production. Narratives, produced by 106 Dutch-speaking children ...