Multimodal user interfaces are becoming more and more important in humann machine communication. Essential representatives of such interfaces are virtual agents that aim to act like humans in the way they employ gestures, facial expression, posture and prosody to convey their emotions in face-to-face communication. Furthermore, if we employ a presentation team [1] to convey facts, the performan...

More and more of the information on the web is dialogic, from Facebook newsfeeds, to forum conversations, to comment threads on news articles. In contrast to traditional, monologic resources such as news, highly social dialogue is very frequent in social media, as illustrated in the snippets in Fig. 1 from the publicly available Internet Argument Corpus (IAC) (Walker et al., 2012). Utterances a...

The core aim of physical education initial teacher training in England is to prepare associate teachers become creative, inspiring, and highly skilled practitioners who will contribute the teaching development subject. School-based mentors play a critical role this process, an appreciation their impact has raised importance understanding nuanced way they work with school. This paper uses framew...

Previous research in content planning for generation has tended to assume that content planning can be performed: by one monolithic planning process using intentional and rhetorical structures only by performing top-down planning to produce complete plans and then executing them These are signiicant simplifying assumptions that may work for text and monologic discourse, but fail to account for ...

The visual quality of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, together with its popular and folkloric ingredients, has greatly contributed to the novel’s immediate transmedial reception was central success during so-called “golden age” satire in British Isles. Starting end eighteenth century, caricaturists transformed work into a symbol society’s mechanisms structures. Indeed, frequent nineteenth-...