Despite the fact that there are a wide range of strategies used to foster interactions in EFL conversation classrooms, many novice teachers are not aware of them. In view of this problem, the current study aimed to identify such strategies commonly used by EFL teachers in conversation classrooms. To this end, fifty sessions of college level conversation classrooms were observed andtheir teacher...

NATURAL LANGUAGE INFERENCE: FROM TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT TO CONVERSATION ENTAILMENT By Chen Zhang Automatic inference from natural language is a critical yet challenging problem for many language-related applications. To improve the ability of natural language inference for computer systems, recent years have seen an increasing research effort on textual entailment. Given a piece of text and a hypot...

Human dialogue is so complex that definitively analysing patterns of conversation may well be impossible. Within a conversation, all the complexities and ambiguities of natural language exist and each speaker will have his/her own speech characteristics and moods. Examining these characteristics through text dialog can be a demanding cognitive task . One reason is because the whole conversation...

In MultiAgent Based Simulation (MABS), the observation of simulation results is a complex task: interactions between agents produce a large mass of results, which is particularly complex to analyze. We focus on agents' interactions by message exchanges, from the point of view of human observers. In order to facilitate the observation and the analysis of interactions, we propose an upper level o...

We have developed a recognition system that can understand the multi-party conversation from combined information of prosody and gaze. In multi-party conversation, the conversation becomes complex because many overlaps and interrupts are generated by side participants. And thus becomes difficult to keep track the main thread of the conversation. Gaze works as a strong clue to both clarify and p...

In this article, a distinction is made between the outer therapeutic conversation and the therapist's inner conversation. The therapeutic conversation is a circle of meaning in which both the therapist and the clients play a part. The therapist's inner conversation is described as a negotiation between the self of the therapist and his role. In this process of negotiation the therapist has to t...

To test whether synthetic emotions expressed by a virtual human elicit positive or negative emotions in a human conversation partner and affect satisfaction towards the conversation, an experiment was conducted where the emotions of a virtual human were manipulated during both the listening and speaking phase of the dialogue. Twenty-four participants were recruited and were asked to have a real...

In this paper I proposed the creation of a dialogue document for making available the knowledge contained within a creative conversation process. I discussed three main issues: the role of ordinary documents, the need to better represent conversation processes rationally, and the costs of editing conversation. I looked at the reasons why we rarely see the knowledge from the conversation process...