Social navigation is the process of making navigational decisions in real or virtual environments based on social and communicative interaction with others. A computational model for social navigation is presented as an extension to an existing framework for general navigation, reducing decision-making to the minimization of cognitive costs. Consideration for social navigation gives rise to a c...

The OFAI Multimodal Task Description Corpus (OFAI-MMTD Corpus) is a collection of dyadic teacher-learner (human-human and human-robot) interactions. The corpus is multimodal and tracks the communication signals exchanged between interlocutors in task-oriented scenarios including speech, gaze and gestures. The focus of interest lies on the communicative signals conveyed by the teacher and which ...

This paper summarizes work over the past ve years on the automated planning and generation of multisentence texts using discourse structure relations, placing it in context of ongoing eeorts by Computational Linguists and Linguists to understand the structure of discourse. Based on a series of studies by the author and others, the paper describes how the orientation of generation toward communi...

Today, net-based forums are widely used within various types of educational settings. This article reports on a study of the communication in asynchronous forums by student teachers enrolled in a university course in the teaching of English as a foreign language (didactics) in Norway. The article aims to illustrate the complexity of the interaction going on in the forums in terms of roles, comm...

Because intercultural communicative competence has a tremendous influence on the cultural component of language teaching/ learning, this article is concise literature review competence. In fact, curricula designers have put strong emphasis definitions and implementations communication to provide tasks that enhance learners’ cross-cultural competences. It worth mentioning not new concept in fiel...

The notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in communication studies. This fuzziness has led to tensions among engineers across tenures in interpreting what constitutes communicative competence. The study seeks to investigate novice and professional engineers’ understanding of the said notion in terms of two main elements of communicative competence: linguistic and rhetorical c...

The developing grammatical competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language student at the stage of pre-higher education training is one most important tasks facing linguodidactics. success mastering depends on level competence. Knowledge grammar contributes to better language. article defines terminological status competence, examines its correlation with such categories linguistic communi...

In naturally occurring discourse, much that is meant to be communicated is left out of the explicit text. The interpreter must reconstruct much of the intended meaning ; and the generator can leave out information that will be reconstructed. In this paper, we use an abductive approach to generation and interpretation to provide an account of how the generative and interpretive processes can be ...

The article deals with the model of formation foreign-language professional communicative competence intending translators. given research defines object as process professional-communicative translators use multimedia technologies, and its subject is pedagogical means aimed at creating an effective foreign language future using technologies. It noted that construction effective, it consists th...

BACKGROUND Beyond providing cues about an agent's intention, communicative actions convey information about the presence of a second agent towards whom the action is directed (second-agent information). In two psychophysical studies we investigated whether the perceptual system makes use of this information to infer the presence of a second agent when dealing with impoverished and/or noisy sens...