If a dialog system were to respond to a user as naturally as a human, interaction would be smoother. Imitating the human prosodic behavior of utterances is important in computer-human natural conversations. In this paper, to develop a cooperative/friendly spoken dialog system, we analyzed the correlations between F0 synchrony tendency or overlap frequency and subjective measures: “liveliness,” ...

Food communities in Twitter are growing every year, and food-related content permeates everyday conversations. Users meet on Twitter to share recipes, give cooking advices or simply inform others about what they are eating. While some of these food-related conversations are not associated with any special occurrence, many conversations take place instead during specific events. The detection of...

studying the effects of b2b e-commerce adoption on the smes process and structure is crucial for businesses. extant researches have investigated the impacts of adopting e-commerce and provided some findings, but the varied theoretical approaches have produced results that reflect the impacts of either external or internal factors of adopting e-commerce. however, these approaches did not use a c...

opinion Free Access Share on Conversations: Conversations with a Prominent Propagator: Barbara Ericson Authors: David P. Bunde Knox College CollegeView Profile , Zack Butler Rochester Institute of Technology TechnologyView Christopher L. Hovey University Colorado Boulder BoulderView Cynthia Taylor Oberlin Authors Info & Claims ACM InroadsVolume 14Issue 1March 2023 pp 16–19https://doi.org/10.114...

Background: Many health problems are related to lifestyle and dietary factors. Increasing trend in reproductive disorders observed in recent years may be associated at least in part with these factors, which are compounded by some of the new emergent life styles. Materials and Methods: The data available suggests that lifestyle factors asuch as obesity, tobacco smoking or chewing, alcohol and s...

  Social capital as a concept which is related to social contextand as a new element besides other factors like environmental, Genetic and individual factors has attracted interests of professional and authorities in national and international levels. This approach has attracted attentions in low-income countries which have source limitations for interventions. This paper introduces concepts re...

Citizens' everyday political talk is the foundation and mainspring of deliberative democracy. Accordingly, citizens' equal inclusive participation in discussions deemed crucial for this “talk-centric” vision normatively superior democratic will-formation. Yet, discussing politics a quite demanding activity, research has shown that de facto not everyone access to arena communication. Some citize...

Starting from traditional ideas on the climatic steering of fluvial system dynamics, it appears that there are different kinds of climatic influences on system dynamics. They vary from direct climatic forcing (like peak precipitation) to indirect (like permafrost) and partial forcing (like vegetation). Vegetation (or its absence), and not directly climate, is considered as the main cause of flu...