Consciousness and emotion feature prominently in our personal lives, yet remain enigmatic. Recent advances prompt further distinctions that should provide more experimental traction: we argue that emotion consists of an emotion state (functional aspects including emotional response) as well as feelings (the conscious experience of the emotion); and that consciousness consists of level (e.g., co...

Accessing and browsing archives of multiparty conversations can be significantly facilitated by labeling them in terms of high level information. In this paper, we investigate automatic labeling of speaker roles and topic changes in professional meetings. Using the framework of unsupervised topic modeling we express speaker utterances as mixture of latent variables, each of which is governed by...