The article reveals the problematic aspects of situation in which Ukrainian teachers found them connection with war Ukraine, who are an intellectual, emotional, and social "resource" for formation younger generation. Due to household, housing, financial technical difficulties, as well negative psychological conditions, not all can effectively implement their mission. This problem posed psycholo...

This paper presents a plan-based model of dialogue that combines world, linguistic, and contextual knowledge in order to recognize complex communicative actions such as expressing doubt. Linguistic knowledge suggests certain discourse acts, a speaker's beliefs, aud the strength of those beliefs; contextual knowledge suggests the most coherent continuation of the dialogue; and world knowledge pr...

Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand-specify the dialogue structure using finite state machines or branching trees. For dialogue heavy games, such as role playing games with significant NPC interactions, or emerging genres such as interactive drama, such hand specification significantly limits the playe...

Aceptado: 05/12/2013 The objective of this study is to show how conversation analysis, a sociological discipline, approaches the study of social institutions. Social institutions are conceived as the crystallization of members’ communicative, interactional practices. Two institutional domains—psychiatric interviews and broadcast news interviews —and a specific interactional practice—‘formulatio...

Contemporary capitalism is often described as a economical system based on knowledge, whats indicate a shift from material production to more intangible assets related to exchange, control and circulation. It is strictly connected with something what we can define as a 'language (or communicative) turn' in debate on contemporary city, and particularly on public space. Architects and many urban ...

This article is a comparison of the Natural Approach and Communicative Language Teaching. Using the Richards and Rodgers’ model for conceptualizing approaches and methods described in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 1986, Cambridge University Press, I compare and contrast these two approaches carefully at the level of approach, design and procedure. At the level of approach, I look...

We introduce the particular functionality of the Complaint Engine suite, the integrated complaint management component for mediating consumer disputes. We formulate the problem of epistemic categorization: whether a given complaint submitted by an upset customer is an adequate representation of company’s product, service and attitude towards customers. To do that, a sequence of communicative ac...

The problem we address here is how an animated face can produce the appropriate facial expression according to the performative of the communicative act being performed, while taking into account information on the specific interlocutor and the specific physical-social situation at hand. In our system, a communicative act is represented by two elements: a meaning which corresponds to a set of g...