this article gives an overview of the islamic world science citation center's (isc) journal citation reports (jcr) database. isc-jcr is the only source of citation data on islamic countries’ leading journals and covers journals in english, arabic and persian languages. it provides information on highest impact journals in a field, the most cited journals and hottest journals. this database allo...

Dialogue act classification is a central challenge for dialogue systems. Although the importance of emotion in human dialogue is widely recognized, most dialogue act classification models make limited or no use of affective channels in dialogue act classification. This paper presents a novel affect-enriched dialogue act classifier for task-oriented dialogue that models facial expressions of use...

The Dialogue-based Reflective Learning System for Historical Text Comprehension consists of two parts: (1) the Diagnosis and (2) the Reflective Tutorial Dialogue. In this paper we present the knowledge representation in the dialogue generator module of the Reflective Tutorial Dialogue System (ReTuDiS), which is based on the Theory of Inquiry Teaching. The dialogue generator uses dialogue strate...

We provide a detailed look on the functioning of the OwlSpeak Spoken Dialogue Manager, which is part of the EU-funded project ATRACO. OwlSpeak interprets Spoken Dialogue Ontologies and on this basis generates VoiceXML dialogue snippets. The dialogue snippets can be interpreted by all speech servers that provide VoiceXML support and therefore make the dialogue management independent from the hos...

We have developed an educational environment for a modular spoken dialogue system. The aim of the environment is to provide students, with different backgrounds, means to understand the behaviour of spoken dialogue systems. Focus in this paper is on dialogue and dialogue management. The dialogue is recorded in a dialogue tree whose nodes are dialogue objects. The dialogue objects model the cons...

Eric Grosch Rule 10 for getting published [1] carries advice to publish in journals of high impact (high citation rate). Riding the coattails of eminent, high-impact journals is good marketing, but the task is easier said than done, because the higher the impact is the greater is the competition for print space and the more likely the editor is to offer unhelpful feedback, such as a statement o...