Theoretical framework: ŸSociolinguistics (Labov, Chafe, Biber, etc.) ŸConversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson, Wooffitt, etc.) ŸIntonational Analysis (Pierrehumbert, Beckman, etc.) Diverse units in spontaneous speech: Ÿspeech act Ÿidea unit Ÿinformation unit Ÿintonation unit, intonational phrase, tone group Ÿprosodic unit, prosodic phrase, prosodic group, prosodic utterance Ÿbreath g...

adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andfairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of passages 1(an american textbook) and first certificate (a british textbook) to find out whether...

When computer programs participate in conversations, they can learn things about the people they are conversing with. A conversational system that helps a user select a flight may notice that a person prefers a particular seating arrangement or departure airport. In this paper we discuss a system which uses the information state accumulated during a person-machine conversation and a case-based ...

Threaded discussion forums provide an important social media platform. Its rich user generated content has served as an important source of public feedback. To automatically discover the viewpoints or stances on hot issues from forum threads is an important and useful task. In this paper, we propose a novel latent variable model for viewpoint discovery from threaded forum posts. Our model is a ...

Pervasive Service Conversations have become a major research challenge for Ubiquitous Computing. They can leverage the ability of companies to streamline business activities, directly or through marketplaces as sellers and buyers, with their trading partners. This paper presents a Pervasive Service Conversation framework based on a real-world scenario which represents a B2B Pervasive Service Co...

In presenting examples from the most extensive and demanding fire in modern Swedish history, this paper describes challenges facing hastily formed networks in exceptional situations. Two concepts that have been used in the analysis of the socio-technical systems that make up a response are conversation space and sensemaking. This paper argues that a framework designed to promote understanding o...

The article describes the methodological features of conversation analysis (CA) and a special understanding sociology which is embedded in its program reflected categories observational science, radical empiricism, micro-interactions “talk-in-interaction”. interpretation concept social order incorporated presented. “Turn-taking” “one speaker at time” principle are discussed. They shown to be cr...