This paper examines reprise questions: questions which request clarification of the meaning intended by a speaker when uttering a word or phrase.1 As such they can act as semantic probes, providing information about what meaning can be associated with word and phrase types. We present corpus evidence regarding the meaning of nouns and noun phrases, and argue that this evidence runs contrary to ...

As part of our ongoing work on grounding in dialogue, we present a corpus-based investigation of intention-level clarification requests. We propose to refine existing theories of grounding by considering two distinct types of intention-related conversational problems: intention recognition and intention adoption. This distinction is backed-up by an annotation experiment conducted on a corpus as...

Social identity has been linked to a number of work-relevant constructs. Specifically, researchers have investigated the role of social identity in cross-function teams, its impact on team performance and willingness to engage in OCBs, just to name a few. Furthermore, this construct has been cited as one of the most relevant constructs when understanding inter-group relations (Sohrabi, Gholipou...

PURPOSE Given the importance of partnership in improving health care outcomes among children, there is a substantial need to understand better what partnership means to parents and physicians. The goal of this study was to develop a partnership survey that was based on parents' and pediatricians' opinions about the key concepts of partnership. METHODS Parents of patients visiting an affluent ...

February 18, 2016 Professor Gio Batta Gori Editor, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 525B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA. Professor Gori, We are writing on behalf of four associations to express our regret and concern regarding the comments made towards the crop protection industry in the December 2015 commentary by Bergman et al. (2015) entitled “Manufacturing Doubt Ab...

Despite the widespread usage of the term "never events," the National Quality Forum (NQF) refers to these events as "serious reportable events" in all of their definitions and references. In this editorial, we use the popular but likely improper term "never events" as it further illustrates the public's perception of adverse occurrences. Although the preferred terminology reverts to "serious re...