The present study investigated the effectiveness of combining Social Stories and Video Self-Modelling (VSM) to teach social skills to a three-year-old child with autism. A multiple-baseline across behaviors design revealed that video self-modelled Social Stories were effective at improving all three target behaviors: greeting, inviting to play, and contingent responding. In addition, these beha...

Current advances on dialogue system require the development of language models for automatic speech recognition that are not only domain or task specific but also sub-task specific (e.g. name, age or price recognition). This paper presents a method for the creation of language models for name recognition at the greeting stage of a conversation in spoken Spanish. In particular, we focus on the i...

Politeness, as a universal phenomenon in society, is a reflection of specific cultural values, which can be observed in all languages and cultures. This thesis attempts to make a comparative study of politeness behavior between English and Chinese on the contrastive analyses on such linguistic behaviors as addressing, greeting, complimenting. Owing to different beliefs and values, and different...

Intelligent systems should be able to initiate and understand social interactions, which are always brought about by physical actions. Thus, all physical actions need to be interpreted for their social effects. This paper gives an analytical framework that identifies the main challenges in modelling social interactions. Such interpretation is subjective and might lead to misunderstandings betwe...

Today, we continue our worship series on the Lord's Prayer. We've gotten the greeting out of the way, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name." And last week we wrestled, in with the meaning of the petition, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Today we move to the first utterances about us, that God will take care of us, give us what we need, that do G...

I am pleased to greet the members of Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the occasion of this Plenary Assembly, and I thank Professor Nicola Cabibbo for his kind words of greeting in your name. The theme of your meeting – “Predictability in Science: Accuracy and Limitations” – deals with a distinctive attribute of modern science. Predictability, in fact, is one of the chief reasons for science’s ...

This study investigates to what extent greetings on a social network site popular with South Asians are associated with the degree of interpersonal closeness of the users, educated middle class Bengalis in the United States. Computer-mediated discourse analysis, face-toface interviews, and participant observation were employed to analyze the textual comments exchanged in 79 Bengali dyads. The a...

Moral education is very important for every human being among educational institution, the behavior attitudes and courtesy of student are prioritized because they reflect who have good character. Therefore, learning aqidah morals has ain forming patterens behavior, manners through on subjects morals, so that implementations morallity can be realized optimally. The purpose this research to deter...