Many language learning materials have been published in Japan. However, they are limited in their scope and content. In addition, we doubt whether the speech sounds found there are natural in various situations. These days, some TV news programs (by NHK, CNN, ABC[1], etc.) have closed/open captions corresponding to the speech of the announcer. We have developed a system that automatically makes...

We developed courseware for teaching reactive tokens. Reactive tokens are audio or visual signals that structure discourse, and are sent by discourse participants who do not have the floor to those who do. Cultures with much in common sometimes differ markedly in their reactive tokens. Nonnative language learners need to learn how to interpret and convey reactive tokens in order to be perceived...

Narcissists often fail to abide by norms for polite social conduct, but why? The current study addressed this issue by exploring reasons why narcissists use more offensive language (i.e., profanity) than non-narcissists. In this study, 602 participants completed a survey in which they responded on a measure of trait narcissism, rated several offensive words on the degree to which the words were...

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are increasing in relevance and importance as various domains strive to cope with the challenges of supporting a high degree of variability in modern software systems. Especially the systematic testing of SPLs is non-trivial as a high degree of variability implies a vast number of possible products. As testing every valid product individually quickly becomes infeas...

A psychological experiment was conducted to straightforwardly investigate the effects of polite behaviors expressed by robots in Japan, using a small-sized humanoid robot that performed four types of behaviors with voice task instructions. Results of the experiment suggested that the subjects who experienced “deep bowing” motion of the robot felt it more extrovert than those who experienced “ju...

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Using a large social media dataset and open-vocabulary methods from computational linguistics, we explored differences in language use across gender, affiliation, and assertiveness. In Study 1, we analyzed topics (groups of semantically similar words) across 10 million messages from over 52,000 Facebook users. Most language differed little across gender. However, topics most associated with sel...