This paper presents a model and an application that can be used to assess chat conversations according to their content, which is related to a number of imposed topics, and to the personal involvement of the participants. The main theoretical ideas that stand behind this application are Bakhtin’s polyphony theory and Tannen’s ideas related to the use of repetitions. The results of the applicati...

Online knowledge building communities (OKBC) reunite participants engaged in collaborative discourse. OKBCs can be made „smart“ by adding tools that predict how likely an OKBC is to integrate newcomers in existing dialogues and socio-cognitive structures. Starting from Bakhtin’s dialogical approach and polyphony theory, and building on the concept of interanimation of voices, this study explore...

Klama, for mixed choir, live electronics & prerecorded sounds, has its origins in the ritual lament of Southern Peloponnese (Greece); a “polyphony” composed of improvised monodies (moirolóya), epodes, crying, screams and monologues, accompanied by ritual gestures. By its acoustic violence the lament can be considered an alteration of vocality which affects simultaneously tonality, timbre and la...

Music alignment links events in a score and points on the audio performance time axis. All the parts of a recording can be thus indexed according to score information. The automatic alignment presented in this paper is based on a dynamic time warping method. Local distances are computed using the signal’s spectral features through an attack plus sustain note modeling. The method is applied to m...

The article analyzes scientific research on the theory and practice foreign language training in non-linguistic higher education institutions order to identify methodological approaches evaluated by experts as effective, highlights aspect of their combination. conception that unites authors is recognition competence an element professional competence, which combines general special competencies...