Speech rhythm measurements have been used in a limited number of previous studies on automated speech assessment, an approach using speech recognition technology to judge non-native speakers’ proficiency levels. However, one of the most problematic issues of these previous studies is a lack of a comparison of these rhythm features with other effective non-rhythm features found in decade-long pr...

Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information, and customer care have moved from research labs into commercial use. These applications can receive millions of calls a month. This huge amount of spoken dialogue data has led to a need for fully au...

Automatic problematic situation recognition (PSR) is important for an online conversational system to constantly improve its performance. A PSR module is responsible of automatically identifying users’ un-satisfactions and then sending feedbacks to conversation managers. In this paper, we collect dialogues from a Chinese online chatbot, annotate the problematic situations and propose a framewor...

Consistent biclusterings of training sets can be exploited for solving classification problems in data mining. This technique has been mainly applied so far to solve classification problems related to gene expression data. However, it can be successfully applied to problems arising in other domains, and it is also able to provide information on the features causing the classification of the tra...

Despite the peak prevalence of substance use and comorbid mental health problems during emerging adulthood little research has focused on understanding behavior change processes during this transitional period. This study extended Arnett's (2004) theory of the psychosocial features of emerging adulthood to explore how they may relate to treatment motivation (e.g., readiness to comply with treat...

The differentiation of vasovagal syncope and epileptic seizure is sometimes problematic, since vasovagal syncope may mimic epileptic seizures in many ways. The present report describes a patient who had been diagnosed and treated as having epilepsy with medically-refractory sei-zures for 16 years. Often, unlike epileptic seizures, tonic-clonic convulsions and postictal confusion are uncommon fe...

OBJECTIVES: The study objectives were to examine video game use in boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with those with ADHD or typical development (TD) and to examine how specific symptoms and game features relate to problematic video game use across groups. METHODS: Participants included parents of boys (aged 8–18) with ASD (n = 56), ADHD (n = 44), or TD (n = 41). Questionnaires ...

Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information, and customer care have moved from research labs into commercial use. These applications can receive millions of calls a month. This huge amount of spoken dialogue data has led to a need for fully au...

During the last decade, number of people using Internet for sexual purposes has increased exponentially. However, most studies conducted so far have analysed Online Sexual Activity (OSA) adolescents and young people, meaning that we few information on how this phenomenon is expressed across lifespan. The aim study was to analyse three aspects OSA (prevalence different OSAs, motives engage in OS...