This keynote illustrates an innovative approach to the conceptual modeling of a web site: instead of considering a site as an (interactive) information container we can interpret it as a device capable of generating a dialogue with the user. Activating the selected options represents the user “turns” of the dialogue; the webs “turns” are represented by the reply to the user selection. Theoretic...

Present limits of speech recognition and understandi¢,g in the context of free spoken language (alttumgh with a limited vocabulary) have perverse effects on the flow of the dialogue with a system. Typically a non robtt~'t dialogue manager will fail to face with these limits and conversations will often be a failure. This paper presents some possibilities of a structural approach for handling co...

OBJECTIVE Oral and poster presentations held at national and international congresses are recognized as valuable tools for sharing current scientific data and experience among physicians. However, a large proportion of these works fail to be published in scientific journals. We have designed a study to identify the publication rate of presentations held at the 7th National Congress of Obstetric...

There has been much debate on the need for preregistering experimental studies. Opinions differ with some people believing that “pre-registration should be required—for us to believe results of papers,” and others makes no difference science just adds work.” This research dialogue brings differing viewpoints together, in an open academic dialogue. Two target articles two commentaries discuss wh...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

In this paper we describe how a computer dictation system can answer certain questions from a physician. Using speech recognition, dictation systems can automatically generate medical reports. Our dictation system, DictaMed, models the medical entities using an object oriented representation. These entities are created along with the dictation when they are mentioned by the physician. The dicta...

In this review article, empirical studies published from 2004 through 2014 on second-language (L2) oral proficiency testing are analyzed, with a specific focus on discourse and social interaction in such tests. Taking three common test setups, oral proficiency interviews (OPIs), paired peer tests, and group peer tests as an organizing principle for the studies examined, recent developments in L...

Data collection and use is absolutely necessary to contemporary spoken dialogue system research. Yet much of it is done either at the beginning of a project with humanhuman conversation for a particular task, or done with a “frozen” system as an evaluation technique. As system development proceeds, system-user dialogue gets further and further apart from the original human-human dialogues due t...