Conversational agents are more and more investigated by the community but their ability to keep the user committed in the interaction is limited. Predicting the behavior of children in a human-machine interaction setting is a key issue for the success of narrative conversational agents. In this paper, we investigate solutions to evaluate the child’s commitment in the story and to detect when th...

This paper examines the manifestation of individual style through lens a specific language category: interjection. The analysis considers how interjections are used as resource in dramatic dialogue three Restoration playwrights: Aphra Behn, John Dryden and Thomas D’Urfey, their preferences practices use compare to previously identified trends history English. Using concept repertoire frame for ...

Besides the linguistic (verbal) information conveyed by speech, the paralinguistic (nonverbal) information, such as intenning the classification of paralinguistic information. Among the several paralinguistic items extions, attitudes and emotions expressed by the speaker, also convey important meanings in communication. Therefore, to realize a smooth communication between humans and spoken dial...