While there are a wide variety of studies about communicative action theory of Habermas, there is the need for building of indicators and variables for quantitative methods of assessing this concept in a particular case study. Especially as the development of communicative action theory has created new perspectives in urban planning, it is necessary to assess and promote this concept in cities ...

In the following paper, principal ideas for an incremental lexical choice process guided by generation constraints during the incremental natural language generation in the WIP system are presented. In this approach, a most adequate expression for an arbitraryly complex conceptual description is processed by examining a list of constraining generation parameters like time to produce the result,...

Our experience with a critiquing system shows that when the system detects problems with the user’s performance, multiple critiques are often produced. Analysis of a corpus of actual critiques revealed that even though each individual critique is concise and coherent, the set of critiques as a whole may exhibit several problems that detract from conciseness and coherence, and consequently assim...

In the past thirty years, French teaching in Chinese universities has undergone many changes. Language plays a vital role transmitting information between countries. Grammar should be an important part of foreign language teaching. Of course, students’ learning habits respected. However, investigating their preferred style process contextualization is our responsibility as well. Therefore, orde...

The paper aims to identify the level of non-linguistic students’ satisfaction with level-based foreign language teaching on basis blended learning model. article examines key aspects approach, emphasizes role individual style, substantiates necessity take into account initial first-year bachelors’ foreign-language competence. authors analyse efficiency teaching, examine its influence developing...

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of ethno-oriented language teaching foreign students. definition communicative ethnostistics given, its object and subject are considered. urgency problem substantiated. aim work consider different styles national communication, as well parameters that used describe style communication. Two main types acquisition considered − non-communicative. Listen...

This paper describes AutoBrief, an experimental intelligent multimedia presentation system that generates presentations in text and information graphics in the domain of transportation scheduling. Acting as an intelligent assistant, AutoBrief creates a presentation to communicate its analysis of alternative schedules. In addition, the multimedia presentation facilitates data exploration through...

The mother–infant communicative speech of a group of mothers of 4-month-old first-born twin infants was compared to the speech of a group of mothers of first-born singleton infants. Maternal groups were matched on age, education level, mother– infant attachment status and infant gender, and maternal depression was assessed as a control variable. Maternal speech was coded for focus, content, com...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between leaders' communication styles and charismatic leadership, human-oriented leadership (leader's consideration), task-oriented leadership (leader's initiating structure), and leadership outcomes. METHODOLOGY: A survey was conducted among 279 employees of a governmental organization. The following six main communication sty...

Multiple versions of a document may need to be produced for diierent purposes and so may require quite diierent stylistic structures. This paper describes how we are building stylistic control into both natural language parsers (Pundit) and generators (Pen-man) to handle variations in hospital patient educational materials. Stylistic knowledge is formally represented in terms of a multi-level s...