this paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the british and taiwanese teenage intercultural communication corpus (batticc). more specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of british and taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

this article aims to study an important principle in discourse analysis, which belongs to paul grice, the contemporary philosopher. he believes that in addition to giving and taking information during a conversation, people also show their cooperation with each other, and so he suggests the ‘cooperative principle’ which contains some principles of subtext. since the cooperative principle is wit...

This paper describes a demonstration of an open source Total Conversation client for the Android mobile phone platform. It also explains the rationale for Total Conversation and gives a brief overview of the open standards on which Total Conversation is based.

This paper makes a distinction between conversation and communication (signal transfer which may, or may not, be conversational) . The word " conversation" is given an interpretation, which ref.1nes its COIIBDonsense meaning. conversation maintains the autonor;Jy or identity of systems and, also , generates independencies between systems (human , societal , or others), which is a prerequisite o...

Businesses deploy chatter bots to engage in text based conversations with customers that are intended resolve their issues. However, these chatter bots are only effective in exchanges consisting of question answer pairs, where the context may switch with every pair. I am designing a semantic architecture that enables chatter bots to hold short conversations, where context is maintained througho...

Conversation therapies employing video for feedback and to facilitate outcome measurement are increasingly used with people with post-stroke aphasia and their conversation partners; however the evidence base for change in everyday interaction remains limited. We investigated the effect of Better Conversations with Aphasia (BCA), an intervention that is freely available online at https://extend....

RubyStar is a dialog system designed to create “human-like” conversation by combining different response generation strategies. RubyStar conducts a nontask-oriented conversation on general topics by using an ensemble of rule-based, retrieval-based and generative methods. Topic detection, engagement monitoring, and context tracking are used for managing interaction. Predictable elements of conve...

While many aspects of tutoring have been identified and studied, off topic conversation has been largely ignored. In this paper, off topic conversation during 50 hours of one-to-one expert tutoring sessions was analyzed. Two distinct methodologies (Dialogue Move occurrence and LIWC analysis) were used to determine the anatomy of off topic conversation. Both analyses revealed that the expected s...