We report neurological information and experimental data regarding acquired neurogenic stuttering in a 57-year-old male following ischemic lesion to the orbital surface of the right frontal lobe and the pons. The experimental data consist of stuttering frequency measures under various conditions that are well known to enhance fluency in most individuals with developmental stuttering. Specifical...

The aim of the Dublin City University’s participation in the CLEF 2005 ImageCLEF St Andrew’s Collection task was to explore an alternative approach to exploiting text annotation and content-based retrieval in a novel combined way for pseudo relevance feedback (PRF). This method combines evidence from retrieved lists generated using textbased and content-based retrieval to determine which docume...

We present a measurement of the intrinsic space density intermediate redshift ($z\sim0.5$), massive ($M_{*} \sim 10^{11} \ \text{M}_{\odot}$), compact ($R_{e} 100$ pc) starburst ($\Sigma_{SFR} 1000 \text{M}_{\odot} \text{yr}^{-1} \text{kpc}^{-1}$) galaxies with tidal features indicative them having undergone recent major mergers. A subset host kiloparsec scale, $>1000 \text{km}\ \text{s}^{-1}$ ...

This study compared the effects of using voice mail files sent as electronic mail (e-mail) attachments versus text-based e-mail to provide student feedback. Social Presence Theory (SPT) was used as the theoretical framework for assessing the two modes of delivering feedback. SPT would predict that voice mail would be perceived as higher than e-mail in terms of social presence. In accordance wit...

The paper compares how feedback is expressed via speech and head movements in comparable corpora of first encounters in three Nordic languages: Danish, Finnish and Swedish. The three corpora have been collected following common guidelines, and they have been annotated according to the same scheme in the NOMCO project. The results of the comparison show that in this data the most frequent feedba...

We present our first experiments with detecting and correcting errors in a manual annotation of English texts, taken from the Penn Treebank, at the dependency-based tectogrammatical layer, as it is defined in the Prague Dependency Treebank. The main idea is that errors in the annotation usually result in an inconsistency, i. e. the state when a phenomenon is annotated in different ways at sever...

This study reports on an experiment that analyzes a variety of entailment evaluations provided by a lexico-syntactic tool, the Entailer. The environment for these analyses is from a corpus of self-explanations taken from the Intelligent Tutoring System, iSTART. The purpose of this study is to examine how evaluations of hand-coded entailment, paraphrase, and elaboration compare to various evalua...

A central finding in dialogue research is that interlocutors rapidly converge on referring expressions which become progressively contracted and abstract. However, there is currently no consensus on which mechanisms underpin convergence: The interactive alignment model (Pickering and Garrod) favours priming, the grounding model (Clark, 1996) prioritizes positive feedback, while Healey (2002) de...

This paper proposes that speech analysis be used to quantify prosodic variables in presentation speech, and reports the results of a perception test of speaker liveliness. The test material was taken from a corpus of oral presentations made by 18 Swedish native students of Technical English. Liveliness ratings from a panel of eight judges correlated strongly with normalized standard deviation o...

The known item search task (KIS) aims to retrieve a unique video or video clip in the video corpus. This paper presents a novel interactive video browsing system for KIS task. Our system integrates visual content-based, text-based and concept-based search approaches. It allows users to flexibly choose the search approaches. Moreover, two novel feedback schemes are employed: first, users can spe...