Problematising Discourse Completion Tasks: Voices from Verbal Report

Improving Reading IELTS Scores: Completion vs. Selection Tasks

Verbal and nonverbal discourse planning

We are designing a Conversational Agent that communicates at the same time by speech and expressive face. As we are engaged in face-to-face interaction or in any communicative acts where the visual modality is available along with the acoustic one, multimodal signals are at work. Our communicative acts are performed not only through words, but also through intonation, body posture, hand gesture...

Priming in word stem completion tasks: comparison with previous results in word fragment completion tasks

This study investigates priming in an implicit word stem completion (WSC) task by analyzing the effect of linguistic stimuli characteristics on said task. A total of 305 participants performed a WSC task in two phases (study and test). The test phase included 63 unique-solution stems and 63 multiple-solution stems. Analysis revealed that priming (mean = 0.22) was stronger in the case of multipl...

Performance on verbal and low-verbal false belief tasks: evidence from children with Williams syndrome.

UNLABELLED Previous studies that have investigated the relationship between performance on theory of mind (ToM) tasks and verbal abilities in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have reported contradictory findings with some showing that language abilities aid performance on ToM tasks while others have found that participants with WS fail these tasks because of their verbal demands. The cur...

Non-Verbal Cues for Discourse Structure

This paper addresses the issue of designing embodied conversational agents that exhibit appropriate posture shifts during dialogues with human users. Previous research has noted the importance of hand gestures, eye gaze and head nods in conversations between embodied agents and humans. We present an analysis of human monologues and dialogues that suggests that postural shifts can be predicted a...