Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

Aim. The paper presents the study of narrations of schizophrenic patients focused on the description of activities characteristics. The aim is to answer the question of how experiencing of psychotic crisis influences the perception of their authorship. Do the inherent characteristics of the activity differ with reference to the period of life which they relate to: the time before getting sick, ...

AIM The paper presents the study of narrations of schizophrenic patients focused on the description of activities characteristics. The aim is to answer the question of how experiencing of psychotic crisis influences the perception of their authorship. Do the inherent characteristics of the activity differ with reference to the period of life which they relate to: the time before getting sick, o...

While the linked data paradigm has gathered much attention over the recent years, the domain of Islamic knowledge has yet to cache upon its full potential. The web-scale integration of Islamic texts and knowledge sources at large is currently not well facilitated. The two primary sources of the Islamic legislation are the Qur’an and the Hadith (collections of Prophetic Narrations) and form the ...

Storytelling is a new way to guide museum visitors, where the traditional set of exhibit-centric descriptions is replaced by storycentric cohesive narrations with carefully-designed references to the exhibits. Personalized storytelling customizes the narrations according to different user characteristics, either statically or dynamically during the visit. In this paper, we describe the basic el...

Dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche sur la conception d’observatoires de pratiques agricoles, nous nous intéressons au recueil et à la formalisation des expériences passées, sur la base desquelles nous voulons bâtir un système d’aide à la conception de tels observatoires. Nous disposons pour cela de corpus d’entretiens où des responsables d’observatoires relatent leur expérience. Dans ces na...

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION In Western societies, an infant's crying often causes anxiety in parents. Educational and empowerment paths of parenthood could be useful to overcome these difficulties (Hiscock 2004). AIMS Design and implement a pilot test of an educational path with a group of infants' (0-3 months) parents to support them in the acceptance of their chil...