From the 1990s, the multimodal turn in discourse studies makes multimodal discourse analysis a popular topic in linguistics and communication studies. An important approach to applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to non-verbal modes is Visual Grammar initially proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996). Considering that commercial advertisement is an indispensable part of the modern society t...

This paper presents the development of the “Corpus de Investigación en Español de México del Posgrado de Ingenierı́a Eléctrica y Servicio Social” (CIEMPIESS) that is a new open-sourced corpus extracted from Spanish spoken FM podcasts in the dialect of the center of Mexico. The CIEMPIESS corpus was designed to be used in the field of automatic speech recongnition (ASR) and it is provided with two...

Recognition of social roles in small group interactions is challenging because of the presence of disfluency in speech, frequent overlaps between speakers, short speaker turns and the need for reliable data annotation. In this work, we consider the problem of recognizing four roles, namely Gatekeeper, Protagonist, Neutral, and Supporter in small group interactions in AMI corpus. In general, Gat...

Situated dialogue systems that interact with humans as part of a team (e.g., robot teammates) need to be able to use information from communication channels to gauge the coordination level and effectiveness of the team. Currently, the feasibility of this end goal is limited by several gaps in both the empirical and computational literature. The purpose of this paper is to address those gaps in ...

The paper presents LGS, a geometric solver by LEDAS for systems requiring solving of geometric problems with constraints. LGS is presently a stable marketable product, and so the paper focuses on the future of LGS, such as possible development paths and applications to real tasks. Apart from the traditional use in large parametric CAD systems, possibilities for integrating the solver in small C...

CADS (consumer appliance diagnostic system) is a diagnostic and advisory knowledge-based system that provides advice through call-taking representatives to consumers calling the Whirlpool Consumer Assistance Center (CAC). Even though this application is not an original AI application, valuable lessons can be learned from the process that was followed during its development and integration into ...

Objective: To determine whether equine-assisted therapy (hippotherapy) produces alterations in the balance of the elderly. Methods: The sample included 17 older adults who were divided into experimental (7 subjects) and control (10 subjects) groups. Stabilometry data were acquired with a force platform. The Timed Up and Go test (TUG) was used for clinical analysis of seated balance, transfer fr...

Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler’s Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler’s Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by experience...

Frequency information on co-occurrence pa t te rns can be att tomatically collected from a syntactically analyzed corpus; this information can then serve as the basis for selectional constraints when analyzing new text; from the same domain. Tiffs information, however, is necessarily incomplete. We report on measurements of the degree of selectional coverage obtained with ditt\~rent sizes of co...

This study examines developmental change in the production of epenthetic vowels by Japanese learners of English in relation to acquisition of L2 English speech rhythm. Seventy-two Japanese learners of English in the J-AESOP corpus were divided into lowerand higher-level learners according to their proficiency score and the frequency of vowel epenthesis. Three learners were excluded because no v...