Emotion detection is increasingly used in Embodied Conversational Agents to create an adapted reply channel to the user's affective state. In this context, we propose a method to detect emotions in short texts (i.e. in texts whose size is similar to dialog utterances). Our goal is to design a model to detect the dominant affective state produced by short texts onto a reader and to classify them...

Automated scoring of short answers often involves matching a students response against one or more sample reference texts. Each reference text provided contains very specific instances of correct responses and may not cover the variety of possibly correct responses. Finding or hand-creating additional references can be very time consuming and expensive. In order to overcome this problem we prop...

In this paper we present SINTESI, a system for the knowledge extraction from Italian inputs, currently under development in our re,search centre. It is used on short descriptive diagnostic texts, in order to summarise their technical content and to build a knowledge base on faults. Often in these texts complex linguistic constructions like conjunctions, negations, ellipsis and anaphorae are inv...

Automatic book indexing systems are based on the generation of phrase structures capable of reflecting text content. • Some approaches are given for the automatic construction of back-of-book indexes using a syntactic analysis of the available texts, followed by the identification of nominal constructions, the assignment of importance weights to the term phrases, and the choice of phrases as in...

in this study, attempts have been made to investigate the self-healing factors in marital conflicts, with an emphasis on the views of ayatollah javadi amoly in anthropology. a holistic approach based on strong points of marriage is better suited to meet different needs of couples, contributing to the resolution of conflicts, as compared to an approach that deals with strengths and self-healing ...

Automatic processing of specification texts written in natural language raises at least two problems: the availability of general tools to recognize the constituents of the texts; finding a way to represent their contents allowing the user to modify and check them for consistency. The texts analyzed here specified the alarm logic for an aircraft. The long-term aim is to extract rules for an exp...

School texts on geography are an important but neglected repository of geographical knowledge and representations within the historiography of geography. During the period 1830-1918 geography school texts were influenced by European exploration, church sponsors of education, the mediation of religious and scientific explanation of the natural world, popular images of empire, and state education...

The aim of this study is to analyse and describe the impact of digital devices with a mult imodal character on chi ldren's creations of narrative texts. The focus will be on the process of creating texts, the conditions for creating texts and the results, the texts. Text is seen as multimodal and the theoretical approach is social semiotics. The method will involve a multimodal didactic design ...

We report on results from using the multivariate readability model SVIT to classify texts into various levels. We investigate how the language features integrated in the SVIT model can be transformed to values on known criteria like vocabulary, grammatical fluency and propositional knowledge. Such text criteria, sensitive to content, readability and genre in combination with the profile of a st...