Presenting information on emotionally charged topics is a delicate task: if bare facts alone are conveyed, there is a risk of boring the audience, or coming across as cold and unfeeling; on the other hand, emotional presentation can be appropriate when carefully handled, but when overdone or mishandled risks being perceived as patronising or in poor taste. When Natural Language Generation (NLG)...

The distribution of blockbuster punitive damages awards has fat tails similar to the distributions of losses from natural disasters. Extremely large awards occur more often and are more difficult to predict than if blockbuster awards were distributed normally. The size and predictability of awards are important factors in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on punitive damages. This article exam...

Semiotics mainly studies the role of symbols in signals, language, culture, human behavior, and social mechanisms. Based on semiotic theory female images, this article explores relationship between feminist ideas appearance, self-choice film television dramas, reasons for prevalence feminism, why feminism influences images dramas. Semiotics, a branch linguistics, how signs convey meaning variou...

There is widely perceived to be a public liability crisis in Australia. This paper analyses whether court awards for injuries are excessive. The paper has two main parts. The first part outlines a normative basis for the sizes of awards based on the principles of welfare economics and the amounts that individuals would be willing to pay to avoid injuries. It shows the kinds of compensation sums...

Chinese female audiences’ attitudes towards TV dramas have changed. They are no longer inclined to the romantic themes of idol and criticize male characters in previous dramas. The current research on television has not carried out special from perspective audiences. This will supplement this further explore connection between changes consciousness women’s movement. guide workers produce works ...

Interactive Pedagogical Dramas (IPD) are compelling interactive stories that have didactic purpose. Autonomous agents realize the characters in these dramas. Their roles may be to portray humans facing overwhelming, emotionally-charged difficulties. This challenges the agents to interact with a depth and subtlety that is consistent with human behavior in difficult, stressful situations. To addr...