SmartKom is a multimodal dialog system that combines speech, gesture, and mimics input and output. Spontaneous speech understanding is combined with the video-based recognition of natural gestures. One of the major scientific goals of SmartKom is to design new computational methods for the seamless integration and mutual disambiguation of multimodal input and output on a semantic and pragmatic ...

A corpus of read American English was designed as a research tool for speech synthesis and prosody research with an emphasis on concept-to-speech research. The total duration of the corpus is two hours. It was recorded with two native speakers who also provide the voices of the VERBMOBIL American English speech synthesis. The corpus was annotated linguistically on several levels (syntax, semant...

Authority is both a pragmatic condition of much public discourse and form argumentative appeal routinely used in it. The goal this contribution to propose new account challenging authority that benefits from the interplay resources recent speech act theory argumentation theory. Going beyond standard approaches two disciplines, paper analyzes nuanced forms establishing and, especially, discourse...

‘Native-like’ use of discourse markers is a good indicator language proficiency. Analysing four subcorpora English-language tweets posted by Twitter users from the Nordic countries Finland, Norway, and Sweden, this study considers effects discursive context L1 influence on correlation between semantic function sentence position marker actually. The shows that both predictors appear to have sign...

Language can be used to express positive thoughts and reflect perceptions of others. Language, on the other hand, might do opposite. Hate speech is language directed at a particular group people. It incites hostility, violence, or discrimination against others based difference in race, religion, gender, among People have become more interested hate due its impact individuals societies. argued t...

This article aims to identify pragmatic equivalence in the translation of expressive speech acts. Descriptive and comparative methods were used this study analyze data. Data collection is done by analyzing documents with technique observing note-taking. The data form utterances containing acts on subtitles Bridgerton TV series English Indonesian. obtained through accessing Netflix platform a pe...