Everyday conversation requires listeners to quickly recognize verbal actions, so-called speech acts, from the underspecified linguistic code and prepare a relevant response within the tight time constraints of turn-taking. The goal of this study was to determine the time-course of speech act recognition by investigating oscillatory EEG activity during comprehension of spoken dialog. Participant...

In this paper we introduce a novel model for computer-aided human-human dialogue. In this context, the computer aims at improving the outcome of a human-human task-oriented dialogue by intervening during the course of the interaction. While dialogue state and topic tracking in human-human dialogue have already been studied, few work has been devoted to the sequential part of the problem, where ...

In this paper, we try to lay the foundation for an informational model of human conversations that formally speci es, for each stage of a conversation, what information is or is not made available to conversants through various forms of \cuings" that occur in the conversation. Squarely facing the fact that multiple lines of cuings often co-occur and interact with each other in the course of an ...

The Initiative of establishing Information Technology (IT) and Community Service Centers, later renamed Knowledge Stations (KSs) was launched in 2001. The KSs initiative is intended to implement IT in local communities (LCs) and remote areas in preparation for the E-Government process. This study develops a model that explores KSs’ role as a partnership in E-Government readiness in Jordan throu...

Thread disentanglement is the task of separating out conversations whose thread structure is implicit, distorted, or lost. In this paper, we perform email thread disentanglement through pairwise classification, using text similarity measures on non-quoted texts in emails. We show that i) content text similarity metrics outperform style and structure text similarity metrics in both a class-balan...

Conversation Theory and a dynamic protolanguage, Lp, are used to illustrate an al'gulllent in favour of reflective and relativistic theories in Cybernetics and Systems Studies.

We investigate the interaction of power, gender, and language use in the Enron email corpus. We present a freely available extension to the Enron corpus, with the gender of senders of 87% messages reliably identified. Using this data, we test two specific hypotheses drawn from the sociolinguistic literature pertaining to gender and power: women managers use face-saving communicative strategies,...

Despite the fact that there are a wide range of strategies used to foster interactions in EFL conversation classrooms, many novice teachers are not aware of them. In view of this problem, the current study aimed to identify such strategies commonly used by EFL teachers in conversation classrooms. To this end, fifty sessions of college level conversation classrooms were observed andtheir teacher...

Today, one of the important topics, which are mentioned in architecture, is the relationship between architectural works with each other and way of effect of such works on them. On the other hand, under current conditions and despite existing trends which look for their own architecture, it is crucial important to interpret how contemporary architectural works are affected by previous architect...