This paper discusses the problem of generating communicatively adequate responses in information seeking dialogues and advocates the Constructive Dialogue Management (CDM) approach, which is an advance on previous research in that communicative principles are explicitly taken into consideration. Communicative principles are general inference rules which describe rational, cooperative action in ...

In this work we present a typology of eye closing behaviours based on a semantic taxonomy of communicative signals. The types of eye closing we investigate are blinks, eye-closures and winks performed during political debates. While other studies in the literature attempt to classify blinks and eye-closures according to their duration or (in)completeness of the closure, our study aims to distin...

This paper aims at presenting the new method used in Iraq to teachgrammar. Despite fact that curriculum now is very different fromthe traditional one, it still depends on exam-based system. The newsyllabi of intermediate and secondary schools focus thecommunicative approach. Yet, question here this book willhelp students interact with each other inside outside class. Due tothe broad areas gramm...