Virtual characters in games operate in a social context involving other characters and human players. If such socially situated virtual characters are to be considered believable, they should be able to adjust their behavior based on beliefs about the mental states of other characters and human players. Autonomous BDI-based agents are suitable for modeling characters that exhibit such intention...

n the recent years, the knowledge of stylistics has experienced some new branches. thanks to the recent efforts of a group of linguists, traditional stylistics has changed its branches in favour of genres, rather than the types of prose and verse. up until two decades ago, stylistics mainly focused on the form of the text, and the genres were almost ignored or overlooked. however, in the light ...

We examine interruptions in a corpus of spontaneous taskoriented dialogue. We present evidence that interruptions occur at particular places in conversation. They are likely to occur during or after speech with certain acoustic/prosodic properties. We also examine the speech of interruptions themselves and find a number of significant differences between interrupting and non-interrupting turns.

Endocarp morphology of 4 species of Iranian Celtis was examined using light and scanning electron microscopes. Macro- and micro-morphological characters were included endocarp shape, color, size, surrounding rim, ornamentation and SEM structure of the outer layer of the endocarp. Endocarp morphology of the examined specimens exhibit variation in all characters. Endocarp shape varies from globul...