Vlogs have rapidly evolved from the ’chat from your bedroom’ format to a highly creative form of expression and communication. However, despite the high popularity of vlogging, automatic analysis of conversational vlogs have not been attempted in the literature. In this paper, we present a novel analysis of conversational vlogs based on the characterization of vloggers’ nonverbal behavior. We i...

research on assessing craving in laboratory settings often involves inducing and then measuring craving in subjects. cue-induced craving is studied in laboratory settings using the cue reactivity paradigm, in which drug-related photos, videos, evocative scripts, olfactory cues, and paraphernalia may induce craving. cue-induced craving evoked by drug-related stimuli could be associated with rela...

Objectives: The brain’s widespread neural functions lead to aphasia in which the patients experience difficulties in cognitive and language functions. Memory, type, and severity of aphasia are associated with language and the naming process. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between memory, type, and severity of aphasia using the confrontation naming test in post-stroke pat...

A common feature of news reports is the reference to events other than the one which is central to the discourse. Previous research has suggested Gricean explanations for this; more generally, the phenomenon has been referred to simply as \journalistic style". Whatever the underlying reasons, recent investigations into information extraction have emphasised the need for a better understanding o...

Context: Conditional statements like “If A and B then C” are core elements for describing software requirements. However, there many ways to express such conditionals in natural language also how they can be interpreted. We hypothesize that conditional requirements a source of ambiguity, potentially affecting downstream activities as test case generation negatively. Objective: Our goal is under...

Although scholarly attention has been drawn to the stress correlates of sub-varieties Educated Nigerian English (ENigE) without a conclusion on modes determining patterns in varieties, therefore, current study provides insights into sub-variety. Two regional ENigE, namely: Yoruba (EYE) and Igbo (EIE), are compared describe ENigE. Data were collected from twenty (20) university degree graduates ...