A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said– is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring conversations in ten languages and present evidence and arguments for two distinct claims: that Huh? is universal, and that it is a word. In support of the fi...

This article explores comic-strip-inspired graphic transcripts as a tool to present conversational video data from informal multiperson conversations in signed language, specifically Norwegian Sign Language (NTS). The interlocutors’ utterances are represented English translations speech bubbles rather than glossed or phonetically transcribed NTS, and the discusses advantages disadvantages of th...

Abstract Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes an intuitive way. With the latest advances voice-controlled devices, natural language processing, AI general, such received increased attention recent years. Technically, conversational recommenders are usually complex multi-component applications often...

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to extract the arguments for each predicate in an input sentence. Traditional SRL can fail analyze dialogues because it only works on every single sentence, while ellipsis and anaphora frequently occur dialogues. To address this problem, we propose conversational task, where argument be dialogue participants, a phrase history or current As existing datasets are...

abstract   background: different methods of surgical treatment for acromioclavicular(ac) joint injury were considered in the literature. the purpose of the study was to compare intra- articular ac repair technique with the extra-articular coracoclavicular repair technique for the patients with rockwood type iii and vac joint injury when indicated.   methods: nineteen consecutive patients with r...

Zusammenfassung Der folgende Beitrag zeigt auf, wie bestehende Disziplinen und Methoden aus den Bereichen der Psychologie Wirtschaftsinformatik miteinander kombiniert erweitert werden, damit Conversational Bots, auch als Chat- oder Voicebots bekannt, nicht nur natürliche Sprache verstehen verarbeiten können, sondern personalisiert auf die Useranfragen eingehen können. Dies alles mit dem Ziel, m...

Conversational AI systems are becoming famous in day to day lives. In this paper, we are trying to address the following key question: To identify whether design, as well as development efforts for search oriented conversational AI are successful or not. It is tricky to de€ne ’success’ in the case of conversational AI and equally tricky part is to use appropriate metrics for the evaluation of c...