This paper introduces an open source, interoperable generic software tool set catering for the entire workflow of creation, migration, annotation, query and analysis of multi-layer linguistic corpora. It consists of four components: Salt, a graph-based meta model and API for linguistic data, the common data model for the rest of the tool set; Pepper, a conversion tool and platform for linguisti...

Listeners use linguistic feedback to provide evidence of understanding to speakers. They, in turn, use it to reason about listeners’ mental states, to determine the groundedness of communicated information and to adapt subsequent utterances to the listeners’ needs. We describe a probabilistic model for the interpretation of listener feedback in its dialogue context that enables a speaker to eva...

It is common that students peer-review other students’ writing, and these reviews are useful information to instructors, both on the particulars of the essay being reviewed, the feedback provided and the overall progress of the class. This paper describes a novel approach to summarising feedback in academic essay writing. We present a summarisation method for identifying and extracting represen...

Linguistic field research depends on collecting phrases and sentences as well as their geographical and social characteristics. The traditional method of field research –researchers asking questions and filling forms– is time-consuming, costly, and not free of biases. This article presents metropolitalia, a Web-based crowdsourcing platform for linguistic field research aiming at overcoming some...

In designing and building tutorial dialogue systems it is important not only to understand the tactics employed by human tutors but also to understand how tutors decide when to use various tactics. We argue that these decisions are based not only on student problem-solving steps and the content of student utterances, but also on the meta-communicative information conveyed through spoken utteran...

Though stuttering is manifest in its motor characteristics, the cause of stuttering may not relate purely to impairments in the motor system as stuttering frequency is increased by linguistic factors, such as syntactic complexity and length of utterance, and decreased by changes in perception, such as masking or altering auditory feedback. Using functional and diffusion imaging, we examined bra...

Conceptualising feedback as dialogue places even greater importance on successful interpretation of the message a crucial step leading to uptake feedback. This is not always straightforward it takes place through cultural and linguistic lens that international students bring conversations. research explored role sociocultural competence plays in students’ feedback, unpacking broader language cu...

We introduce an annotation type system for a data-driven NLP core system. The specifications cover formal document structure and document meta information, as well as the linguistic levels of morphology, syntax and semantics. The type system is embedded in the framework of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).

We present in this poster actual work on the building of a standard for syntactic annotation in the framework of ISO TC37/SC4. We describe here mainly the meta-model for syntactic annotation, which is building on the actual ISO proposal for a standard for morpho-syntactic annotation (MAF) and which is embedded in running efforts for defining a generic linguistic annotation