Spoken dialogue systems promise eecient and natural access to a large variety of information sources and services from any phone. However, current spoken dialogue systems are deecient in their strategies for preventing, identifying and repairing problems that arise in the conversation. This paper reports results on automatically training a Problematic Dialogue Predictor to predict problematic h...

Spoken dialogue systems promise eecient and natural access to a large variety of information sources and services from any phone. However, current spoken dialogue systems are deecient in their strategies for preventing, identifying and repairing problems that arise in the conversation. This paper reports results on automatically training a Problematic Dialogue Predictor to predict problematic h...

Inaccurate data in scientific papers can result from honest error or intentional falsification. This study attempted to determine the percentage of published papers that contain inappropriate image duplication, a specific type of inaccurate data. The images from a total of 20,621 papers published in 40 scientific journals from 1995 to 2014 were visually screened. Overall, 3.8% of published pape...

objective: the most commonly used instrument for the research and treatment of excessive internet use is young’s internet addiction test (iat). while the iat has been translated to several languages (including persian) and has demonstrated good psychometric properties across several independent studies, there is still a room for alternative assessment instruments. this study reports a validatio...

Problematic cell phone use has alarmingly increased in industrialized countries in the past 10 years. For many perpetrators, it can turn into a behavioural addiction, although this is not a recognized medical condition. Although there are many tools for evaluating this use, one of the most widely used tools is the Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scale (MPPUS), which we test on a representative sam...