In this issue of Preventive Medicine Bringolf-Isler et al. (Bringolf-Isler et al., 2008) report on factors associated with active commuting to school in more than 1000 children aged 6–14 years in a German-speaking, a French-speaking, and a bilingual area in Switzerland. This study design naturally allows for separating cultural from other determinants of selftransportation. Switzerland may be a...

MC2 CLEF 2017 lab investigates the relationship between cultural microblogs and their social context. This involves microblog search, classification, filtering, language recognition, localization, entity extraction, linking open data, and summarization. The goal of the timeline illustration track is to study approaches that better retrieve microblogs issued during a cultural event, in order to ...

Social affective expression is a main part of face-to-face interaction and it is highly linked to the language through the culture. This paper presents a study on Audio-Visual prosodic attitudes in Vietnamese, an under-resourced tonal language. Based on an audio-visual corpus of 16 attitudes, perception experiments were carried out with Vietnamese and French participants. The result analysis sh...

PURPOSE This article aims to present the cultural equivalence of the Brazilian version of the 'Questionnaire des Symptômes Vocaux' (QSV). METHODS The questionnaire was translated into Portuguese by two Brazilian bilingual speech-language pathologists who were informed about the purpose of this research. The back translation was performed by a third bilingual Brazilian speech-language patholog...

This paper presents EASY (Evaluation of Analyzers of SYntax), an ongoing evaluation campaign of syntactic parsing of French, a subproject of EVALDA in the French TECHNOLANGUE program. After presenting the elaboration of the annotation formalism, we describe the corpus building steps, the annotation tools, the evaluation measures and finally, plans to produce a validated large linguistic resourc...

The Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI) is a cross-cultural validated instrument that measures simultaneously various manifestations of behaviours, cognitions, and affects associated with dangerous driving. The aims of the study were to translate the DDDI into French and then to verify the validity and reliability of the French version of the scale by means of observed behaviours on a driving s...

Robert French has argued that a disembodied computer is incapable of passing a Turing Test that includes subcognitive questions. Subcognitive questions are designed to probe the network of cultural and perceptual associations that humans naturally develop as we live, embodied and embedded in the world. In this paper, I show how it is possible for a disembodied computer to answer subcognitive qu...

This paper aims at checking the cross-cultural validity of well-know findings concerning the way people integrate communicated information. In a first experiment, a Japanese and a French population weighted the advices they were given in similar ways. In a second experiment, both populations showed some evidence of bias towards their own answer relative to an advice. In both experiments, partic...

Approximately 30 000 children are adopted across national borders each year. A review of the literature on the cultural belonging of these internationally adopted children shows substantial differences between the literature from English-speaking countries and that from France and Europe in general. The objective of this study is to start from the discourse of French adoptive parents to explore...