We examine a popular practitioner methodology used in the construction of linear factor models whereby particular factors are increased or decreased in relative importance within the model. This allows model builders to customise models and, as such, reflect those factors that the client and modeller may think important. We call this process Pragmatic Bayesianism (or prag-Bayes for short) and w...

In natural communication, humans enrich their utterances with pragmatic information indicating, e.g., what is important to them or what they are not certain about. We investigate whether and how virtual humans (VH) can employ this kind of meta-communication. In an empirical study we have identified three modifying functions that humans produce and perceive in multimodal utterance, one being to ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by atypical and idiosyncratic language, which often has its roots in pragmatic deficits. Identifying and measuring pragmatic language ability is challenging and requires substantial clinical expertise. In this paper, we present a method for automatically identifying pragmatically inappropriate language in narratives using two features related to r...

The application of algebraic speciication techniques in the early phases of software development requires a means for specifying views. In this paper we argue for algebraic view speciication based on an algebraic concept model. The concept model consists of two parts: a meta model deening the concepts of diierent views and the relationships between them, and a system model deening the system be...

The scope of this study is threefold. First, it examines socioeconomic status (SES) and pragmatic language development (PLD), hypothesizing that parental education employment levels are mediators, where SES affects PLD mainly through its influence on levels. Second, we used quantitative (age) qualitative (gender) variables as moderators, gender age moderate the relationship between classroom in...

Reuse of experience and solutions for recurring development problems is of the utmost importance for a pragmatic software engineering discipline. The earlier in the development process reuse is achieved, the larger its positive impact on the project. This paper reports on reuse approaches that are applicable during the requirements analysis phase.