is involved in giving an account of relevance in spoken interaction.

: This paper introduces and explores the use of IVEE, a technique for visualization and dynamic database queries applied to a database of transcriptions from various types of linguistic interaction. The use of IVEE is illustrated by presentation of data on vocabulary richness, verbal dominance

In this paper, we explore how the power differential between participants of an interaction affects the way they interact in the context of political debates. We analyze the 2012 Republican presidential primary debates where we model the power index of each candidate in terms of their poll

The problem of what it is that holds a text together has recently received

Automatic detection of syntactical errors in non-native utterances

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We have been investigating an interactive approach for Open-domain QA (ODQA) and have constructed a spoken interactive ODQA system, SPIQA. The system de-rives disambiguating queries (DQs) that draw out additional information. To test the efficiency of additional information re-quested by the DQs

We have been investigating an interactive approach for Open-domain QA (ODQA) and have constructed a spoken interactive ODQA system, SPIQA. The system derives disambiguating queries (DQs) that draw out additional information. To test the efficiency of additional information requested

We present a system for detecting leadership and group cohesion in multiparty dialogs and broadcast conversations in English and Mandarin. We systematically investigate the impact of features and designs of the prediction systems, the relationships between features and their individual significance in logistic regressions, and the contributions of feature groupings as predictors for leader and group cohesion, across genres and languages. We achieve 73.0 % to 94.7% F1 accuracy for leader detection and around 80 % F1 accuracy for group cohesion detection, on all data sets. Index Terms — multiparty dialog, broadcast conversation, leader detection, group cohesion, feature analysis 1.

ION Acta Philosophica Gothoburgensia No 1 Gteborg 1986 2 2. AN INITIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERSTANDING Let me start by the following abstract characterization of understanding. Understanding is a relation between an agent and some particular type of information. In the discussion below I will try to become more specific about the nature of the relationship and about the nature of the relational objects - the agent that understands and the information that is understood. Some initial guidance can perhaps be found by studying the lexical item understand and its derived forms understanding (noun or adjective), understandable (adjective) and ability (noun). If we look at the meaning of these forms, the stemform understand is by itself most naturally taken as a verb denoting a relational process or state. The noun understanding denotes the reified relational process or state of understanding. The adjective understanding denotes a quality which an agent who understands has. The adjec...