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Grounding, Justification, Adaptation: Towards Machines That Mean What They Say

Meaningful language use rests on the grounding of the language in the nonlinguistic world and in the practices of language users. This grounding is built up and maintained in interaction, through Conversational Grounding, which is the interactive process with which interlocutors build mutual understanding; Justification, the ability to explain and provide reasons for one’s language use; and Ada...

" Make It Accessible ! " , They Say

This keynote introduces definitions and concepts related to eAccessibility and its potential for the inclusion of people with disabilities. It defends the idea that a fully accessible society can only result from a global policy where all players are involved. It examines and discusses the main instruments that should support such a policy, namely standards and recommendations, development meth...

Do speakers realize the prosodic structure they say they do?

In this paper we describe a study in which a comparison was made between prosodic structures as realized in a spoken version of a text and as assigned by annotators of this text on paper. The prosodic structures were assigned by experts. This study puts to test the strategy of annotating text on paper to obtain a HUMAN reference of the prosodic structure that would be assigned when reading text...

Title : Honeyguides Prefer To Lead Humans Who Signal That They Will Follow

Greater honeyguides (Indicator indicator) lead human honey-hunters to wild bees' nests, in a rare example of a mutualistic foraging partnership between humans and free-living wild animals. We show experimentally that a specialized vocal sound made by Mozambican honey-hunters seeking bees' nests elicits elevated cooperative behavior from honeyguides. The production of this sound increased the pr...

AOM Online Papers Submission # 17162