Emotion Words in Sundanese Language: Research of Natural Semantic Metalanguage

A Contrastive Study of Request Speech Act in English and Persian Novels: Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...

A Contrastive Study of Request Speech Act in English and Persian Novels: Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...

Semantic Complexity in Natural Language

Influential Words: Natural Language in Interactive Storytelling

In this paper, we introduce the use of Natural Language as a paradigm for influence of plans that are used to drive the behaviour of characters in Interactive Storytelling. We briefly introduce our character-centered approach to Interactive Story system is briefly introduced, and the knowledge representation of stories. Using an example based upon a fully implement first prototype, we discuss h...

Recognizing Emotion Presence in Natural Language Sentences

Emotions constitute a key factor in human communication. Human emotion can be expressed through various mediums such as speech, facial expressions, gestures and textual data. A quite common way for people to communicate with each other and with computer systems is via written text. In this paper we present an emotion detection system used to automatically recognize emotions in text. The system ...