We present unsupervised approaches to the problem of modeling dialog acts in asynchronous conversations; i.e., conversations where participants collaborate with each other at different times. In particular, we investigate a graph-theoretic deterministic framework and two probabilistic conversation models (i.e., HMM and HMM+Mix) for modeling dialog acts in emails and forums. We train and test ou...

Pedagogical strategies increasing rely on technology as a way to address challenges facing the contemporary higher education classroom. This study investigated the use of a tool designed with the specific purpose of student engagement in a large classroom. The tool allows students to post to a community based discussion in a manner similar to a Twitter feed. Despite engaging in a community dial...

Electronic meeting control has been the focus of many research efforts; however, extensively adopted standards are still unavailable. In this paper, we present a generic model for electronic meeting control. Our model is based on the formal meeting protocol commonly known as the parliamentary procedure or Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO). Capturing the essential features of traditional RRO, we sug...

This study is proposed to analyze conversation analysis, especially for turn-taking strategy in a video of Actors on Conversation by Variety featuring Zendaya and Andrew Garfield. used qualitative method with Stenstrom’s framework the conversation. The process analysis consists four steps; streaming Variety’s Garfield, transcribing conversation, classifying data, interpreting data. result this ...

This article focuses on the theory of conversation embodied in LAP—an infl uential framework of phenomenology, pragmatics, and speech act theory. While LAP has received signifi cant attention in prior ACM publications, the framework deserves further consideration in light of renewed interest in the systemic view of conversation in design. The emergence of massive social media networks has inspi...

this study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate efl learners’ idiom learning. the participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in zabansara language school in khorramabad based on their scores on a preliminary english test (pet) and an idiom test piloted in...