This paper proposes the use of NLG to enhance public engagement during the course of species reintroductions. We examine whether ecological insights can be effectively communicated through blogs about satellite-tagged individuals, and whether such blogs can help create a positive perception of the species in readers’ minds, a requirement for successful reintroduction. We then discuss the implic...

The rise on the Internet of blogging, the creation of journal-like web page logs, has created a highly dynamic subset of the World Wide Web that evolves and responds to real-world events. Indeed, blogs (or weblogs) have recently emerged as a new grassroots publishing medium. The so-called blogosphere (the collection of blogs on the Internet) opens up several new interesting research areas. Blog...

This paper reports a study of attitude manifestations in video blogs. We describe the manual annotation of speaker attitudes in a corpus of over 130 video blogs and present an analysis of prosodic and visual cues in relation to attitude states. We use machine learning techniques for the automatic prediction of attitudes from prosodic and visual features in video blogs and compare the performanc...

More than 175,000 are created on the World Wide Web every day. Every second, more than 18 are updated. Blogs, or Web logs, are a growing Internet self-publishing trend, one especially worth noting as the use of health care blogs proliferates among physicians and patients. A quick introduction to a selection of health care blogs reveals their promise as educational and patient care tools, as wel...

I report on blogs as a “protected space” within the context of an ethnographic study that examined blogging from a “blogger’seye” view. I discuss the ability of bloggers to control the content of what is “broadcast” in their blogs and how this affects audience perception. I examine the use of blogs as a communicative medium as compared to alternative means of immediate social interaction. I dis...