This paper discusses the problem of endophoric/deictic references in multimodal dialogues involving speech and pointing gestures. The dialogue system in focus is a building information system implemented using a general workbench architecture “Chameleon”. Chameleon and the building information system have been developed within the IntelliMedia 2000+ project initiated 1996 by the Institute of El...

This paper is a qualitative analysis of the misunderstandings resulting from Coach’s difficulties when processing his interlocutors’ use exophoric and endophoric deixis (and anadeixis), in order to show how this character both stands out and, paradoxically, fits in. tension between standing fitting shows (1) that elucidating not as effortless could be thought (2) these prove key feature humor g...

A method for resolving the ellipses that appear in Japanese dialogues is proposed. This method resolves not only the subject ellipsis, but also those in object and other grammatical cases. In this approach, a machine-learning algorithm is used to select the attributes necessary for a resolution. A decision tree is built, and used as the actual ellipsis resolver. The results of blind tests have ...

moving in line with the postulation that metadiscourse (md) markers help transform a dry and tortuous piece of text into a coherent and reader-friendly one, the researchers in the current study attempted to investigate the effect different metadiscourse markers might have on iranian efl learners’ perception of written texts. to this end, 120 undergraduate english students were given three diffe...

metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...