This paper contrasts natural oral narratives of Bedouin adults and children (ages 8- 11) in the Negev Desert (South Israel). The analysis showed some striking stylistic differences, on both developmental genre-related grounds. Adults, narrating tribal legends a stylized, performed idiom. used distinct styles for textual levels orientation, plotline, direct speech; told folktales anecdotes relat...

This book has appeared in the series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies: monographs from 50 up to 150 pages about specific topics subjects computational linguistics. The intended audience of are researchers and graduate students NLP, AI, related fields. I define myself as a linguist; my review is perspective “random” linguistics researcher wanting learn more this topic or looking...

In 2019, media reports raised awareness about privacy and security violations in Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) like Alexa, Siri Google. Users report that they perceive CUI as creepy are concerned their privacy. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) several other laws across the globe, give users right to control processing of data, for example by requesting deletion data...

Abstract Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes an intuitive way. With the latest advances voice-controlled devices, natural language processing, AI general, such received increased attention recent years. Technically, conversational recommenders are usually complex multi-component applications often...

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to extract the arguments for each predicate in an input sentence. Traditional SRL can fail analyze dialogues because it only works on every single sentence, while ellipsis and anaphora frequently occur dialogues. To address this problem, we propose conversational task, where argument be dialogue participants, a phrase history or current As existing datasets are...