This paper investigates the social behaviour of an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) with PRE-ThINK architecture with the help of typical working student’s life scenario modeling. Тhe program system and the PRE-ThINK architecture, adapted for this scenario, are proposed, and their components are considered. The dynamics of the decision making process in problem situations caused by the implementa...

If users are expected to depend on answers from applications and services on the web, they need to have methods for asking for information that will increase their understanding and their trust in the answers. One way of increasing a user’s understanding and trust is to provide a summarized or detailed description of how the answer was obtained. This process would typically depend on some kind ...

In this paper, we propose a Web mining approach for the Semantic Web. The approach uses a search engine and the traditional web as a source of information to produce semantically rich information. In particular, we assess one community and obtain the social network and related information from the Web. As an example, we extract the social network of an academic society and show that extracted i...

In a network of pages (the web), outbound and inbound links are the only connecting flow making the vertexes; while the pages represent the edges as is found on directed graphs. The ranking of a page is dependent on its content and the number of inbound links which are recommendations to the page. Contrary, an outbound link demotes the page. If the Home page (target page) is "good", then there ...

The technique of J.Krishnamurti's communication marked by a dyadic style, 'pariprasna', a sense of togetherness, absence of persuasion and authoritativeness could be incorporated into psychotherapeutic sessions. Self-reliance and a genuine feeling of psychological oneness with others and to see things 'as they are' are discussed. The need for desirelessness to avoid conflicts and psychologicall...

Different models have been proposed for improving the results of Web search by taking into account the link structure of the Web. The PageRank algorithm models the behavior of a random surfer alternating between random jumps to new pages and following out links with equal probability. We propose to improve on PageRank by using an intelligent surfer that combines link structure and content to de...

This article explores various strategies which could be used to hold the tobacco industry accountable for human rights violations precipitated by its conduct. First, a brief overview of the international human rights regime and the tobacco related jurisprudence issued by human rights treaty bodies is provided. The article then explains how tobacco control advocates could promote more systematic...

We investigated possible motivations for the perceived increase in the use of creaky voice by young speakers by having listeners evaluate pairs of stimuli produced by different speakers in three different voice qualities (modal, creaky, breathy), along four different dimensions (coolness, youthfulness, attractiveness and authoritativeness). Generally, modal voice was the most preferred voice qu...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments and in particular wikis using social network measures. Design / methodology / approach – A social network model for wikipedia has been constructed and metrics of importance such as centrality have been defined. Data have been gathered from articles belonging to the s...

The emergence of potential new human-computer interaction styles enabled through technological advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational linguistics makes it increasingly more important to formalize and evaluate these innovative approaches. In this position paper, we propose a multi-dimensional conversation analysis framework as a way to expose and quantify th...