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Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling
- In: Interspeech
, 2009
"... Although today most language models treat language purely as word sequences, there is recurring interest in tapping new sources of information, such as disfluencies, prosody, the interlocutor’s dialog act, and the interlocutor’s recent words. In order to estimate the potential value of such sources ..."
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Although today most language models treat language purely as word sequences, there is recurring interest in tapping new sources of information, such as disfluencies, prosody, the interlocutor’s dialog act, and the interlocutor’s recent words. In order to estimate the potential value of such sources
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"... Interpretations of Rom. 4 have often been subordinated to a single theme from Rom. 3.21-31, such as justification by faith, the inclusion of the Gentiles, or Paul’s demonstration that his gospel is in continuity with the Torah. While there is undeni-able merit in these contentions, this article argu ..."
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argues that Paul invokes Abraham for multiple purposes in order to answer his interlocutor’s charges against his gospel (Rom. 3.27–4.1). Paul’s argument is multifaceted and cannot be reduced to a single overarching theme. The second half of the article provides an exegesis of the oft-neglected 4
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"... The function of teaching, at all levels, is to educate. No society can evolve healthily in the lack of adequate education. This is, in my opinion, the major problem among all the obstacles that Brazil faces. In following the line of thought of his master Socrates, Plato realized the need to reach th ..."
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the truth by means of dialogue, in which the inquirer plays the role of helping the interlocutor, the latter being the one to give birth to truth. For this purpose, he chose a woodland area not too far away from Athens as his teaching premises, a place named after the legendary hero Academus, this being
Word and communication
"... This essay submits the modern communication theory to a critical analysis. This theory constructs an abstract and reductive model which can not give a pertinent account of what emerges in the process of existential communication which is a multilayered structure not only of being together but of bec ..."
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therefore also fail. The human self is such a structure in its interpersonal becoming through dialogue in which language has to be reinvented so that the interlocutors can co-create meaning and contribute reciprocally to their own
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, 2003
"... *I would like to thank Wade Hands for his indefatigably judicious comments; but he should know by now I don’t always take all of them to heart, so all errors and transgressions are mine alone. I also would like to acknowledge the help of John Davis and Jack Vroman. 0 “In the midst of a gloomy and ex ..."
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and exceedingly responsible business it is quite some trick to remain cheerful; yet, what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds without high spirits … Any means will do, every case is a stroke of luck. Above all war. ” (Nietzsche, 1998, p.3) Whenever I feel at a loss for words, I am
It's all in the words: Supporting work activities with lightweight tools
- In GROUP '99
, 1999
"... The development of tools to support synchronous communications between non-collocated colleagues has received considerable attention in recent years. Much of the work has focused on increasing a sense of co-presence between interlocutors by supporting aspects of face-to-face conversations that go be ..."
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The development of tools to support synchronous communications between non-collocated colleagues has received considerable attention in recent years. Much of the work has focused on increasing a sense of co-presence between interlocutors by supporting aspects of face-to-face conversations that go
Affirmative Cue Words . . .
, 2012
"... We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words—a family of cue words such as “okay ” or “alright " that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor ..."
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We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words—a family of cue words such as “okay ” or “alright " that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what
Possible Lexical Cues for Backchannel Responses
"... Looking for words that might cue backchannel feedback, I did a statistical analysis of the interlocutors ’ words preceding 3363 instances of uh-huh in the Switchboard corpus. No clear cueing words were found, but collateral findings include the existence of semantic classes that slightly increase th ..."
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Looking for words that might cue backchannel feedback, I did a statistical analysis of the interlocutors ’ words preceding 3363 instances of uh-huh in the Switchboard corpus. No clear cueing words were found, but collateral findings include the existence of semantic classes that slightly increase
Turn-Taking and Affirmative Cue Words in TaskOriented Dialogue
, 2009
"... As interactive voice response systems spread at a rapid pace, providing an increasingly more complex functionality, it is becoming clear that the challenges of such systems are not solely associated to their synthesis and recognition capabilities. Rather, issues such as the coordination of turn exch ..."
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conjointly displayed by the speaker. We present similar results related to six backchannel-inviting cues — events that invite the interlocutor to produce a short utterance conveying continued attention. Additionally, we describe a series of studies of affirmative cue words — a family of cue words
The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition
- In Proceedings the Twenty Fifth Cognitive Science Society Annual Meetings
, 2003
"... We examine the influence of inferring interlocutors' referential intentions from their body movements at the early stage of lexical acquisition. By testing human subjects and comparing their performances in different learning conditions, we find that those embodied intentions facilitate bo ..."
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We examine the influence of inferring interlocutors' referential intentions from their body movements at the early stage of lexical acquisition. By testing human subjects and comparing their performances in different learning conditions, we find that those embodied intentions facilitate
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