the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...

Hololive Production is a virtual YouTuber agency which accommodates 71 active talents (VTubers) with 65 million subscribers on YouTube. protects its talents’ privacy by giving them unreal names and avatars. Some viewers intend to find real identities of the talents, some others ignore personalities, while many keep secret although they know person behind avatar. Then, how cyber gender anonymity...

We describe a text classification approach based on statistical language modeling. We show how this approach can be used for several natural language processing tasks in a virtual human system. Specifically, we show it can applied to language understanding, language generation, and character response selection tasks. We illustrate these applications with some experimental results.

Sign languages have been proven to be natural languages, as capable of expressing human thoughts and emotions as traditional (spoken) languages are. The distinct visual and spatial nature of sign languages makes it difficult to develop an interfacing system as a communication medium platform for sign language users. This dissertation targets this problem by presenting some explorations in the a...

This paper reports on an experimental research study that aimed at investigating the effectiveness of employing a virtual task-based situated language learning (TBSLL) environment mediated by Second Life (SL) in developing EFL student teachers’ pragmatic writing skills and their technological self-efficacy. To reach this goal, a control-only experimental research design was employed to compare ...

This work presents a proposal of architecture for a system designed to provide a uniform access through Internet to different distributed and heterogeneous documental databases, which in our case will store antique Spanish documents and information about them. Our main goal is to offer an intuitive interface, designed using the ideas of Virtual Book and Virtual Library metaphors. This interface...

We present a runtime metalevel interface for BETA. BETA is a compiled and statically typed object-oriented programming language. The metalevel interface preserves the type safe properties of the language and supports static type checking. This is achieved through a novel language construct, the attribute reference, on top of which the metalevel interface is built. The metalevel interface is bas...

This paper presents the architecture of a virtual machine designed specifically for the execution of multiple languages, which we call Seam. The architecture consists of a number of generic components, usable by all languages, and of a number of interfaces for which implementations have to be provided by language implementors. Our contribution is the identification of the generic services and t...