Soliloquy

Soliloquy: a Cautionary Tale

The Soliloquy primitive, first proposed by the third author in 2007, is based on cyclic lattices. It has very good efficiency properties, both in terms of public key size and the speed of encryption and decryption. There are straightforward techniques for turning Soliloquy into a key exchange or other public-key protocols. Despite these properties, we abandoned research on Soliloquy after devel...

Signed soliloquy: visible private speech.

Talking to oneself can be silent (inner speech) or vocalized for others to hear (private speech, or soliloquy). We investigated these two types of self-communication in 28 deaf signers and 28 hearing adults. With a questionnaire specifically developed for this study, we established the visible analog of vocalized private speech in deaf signers. "Signed soliloquy" is employed regularly and value...

Embedded Soliloquy and Affective Stances in Japanese

This article discusses strategies to express intimacy with and exaltation of the addressee ― affective stances morphologically incompatible in the Japanese honorific system, wherein addressees are marked as either psychologically distant and exalted, honored, shown respect or intimate and not exalted. To resolve this dilemma, speakers commonly embed soliloquy in dialogic discourse, a strategy d...

A Study of Soliloquy in Japanese

Plan Explanations as Model Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Explanation as Soliloquy

The ability to explain the rationale behind a planner’s deliberative process is crucial to the realization of effective humanplanner interaction. However, in the context of human-inthe-loop planning, a significant challenge towards providing meaningful explanations arises due to the fact that the actor (planner) and the observer (human) are likely to have different models of the world, leading ...