In this paper, we investigate automatic classification of the socio-situational settings of transcripts of a spoken discourse. Knowledge of the socio-situational setting can be used to search for content recorded in a particular setting or to select context-dependent models for example in speech recognition. The subjective experiment we report on in this paper shows that people correctly classi...

There is very little literature supporting software product managers in their work, even though they play a crucial role within software product management organizations. There are large solutions for the improvement of software product management practices, but these are not applicable to most small and medium sized organizations. This research-in-progress paper presents a general incremental ...

IS research has considered the outsourcing decision from the perspective of transaction cost economics (TCE) and institutional theory. In this research, we consider how the appropriation of the logic of transaction cost economics is contingent on decision makers’ institutional context. The institutional contexts contrasted are professional versus political Ritu Agarwal was the accepting senior ...

People leverage situational context when using language. Rather than convey all information through words, listeners can infer speakers’ meanings due to shared common ground [1, 2]. For machines to engage fully in conversation with humans, they must also link words to the world. We present a sensorimotor representation for physically grounding action verbs, modifiers, and spatial relations. We ...

Processes of ethical decision-making are thought to depend on the issue faced when making the decision. We examined the processes by examining student’s reactions to five scenarios involving IT use. Data were collected using a questionnaire following a group discussion. The results showed that ethical decision-making processes did indeed vary by scenario, suggesting that a singleissue approach ...

Users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) aids could benefit from novel methods for accelerating access to contextually relevant vocabulary. This paper describes our initial efforts toward improving access to situational vocabulary through the use of geographic context to predict vocabulary. A corpus of spoken data produced by one able-bodied male speaker across various location...

In 4 experiments, we used self-paced reading and eye tracking to demonstrate that readers are, under some conditions, sensitive to the presuppositions of definite versus indefinite determiner phrases (DPs). Reading was faster when the context stereotypically provided a single possible referent for a definite DP or multiple possible referents for an indefinite DP than when context and DP definit...