This demonstration presents AttitudeMiner, a system for mining attitude from online discussions. AttitudeMiner uses linguistic techniques to analyze the text exchanged between participants of online discussion threads at different levels of granularity: the word level, the sentence level, the post level, and the thread level. The goal of this analysis is to identify the polarity of the attitude...

This article is based on an exploratory study on the use of blogs to support learning in an online MBA school. In this paper, the authors examine students’ perceptions toward blogs and their effectiveness. The study finds that although students are open to the idea of using blogs to enhance presentation and reflection of their learning, concerns exist on their suitability for threaded discussio...

Recent advance in digital storage technology has enabled us to archive more than 1,700 hours of video data from a daily Japanese news show in the last nine years. In this paper, to effectively make use of the video data in the archive, we first present a news video structuring method based on the chronological semantic relations between stories, namely the “topic thread structure”. Next, we int...

We are modeling roles of individual messages and participants in Q&A discussion forums. In this paper, we present a mixed network model that represents message exchanges and message influences within a discussion thread. We first model individual message roles and thread-level user roles using discussion content features. We then combine the resulting message roles and the user roles to generat...

Introduction Attempts to address wicked public health problems can benefit from collaborative approaches problem-solving, such as dialogue through structured conversations, that engage a wide range of stakeholders in deliberate inquiry build trust and mutual understanding. This study seeks assess the effects participation Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD) on university students’ polarization...

We describe SCoT, a Spoken Conversational Tutor, which has been implemented in order to investigate the advantages of natural language in tutoring, especially spoken language. SCoT uses a generic architecture for conversational intelligence which has capabilities such as turn management and coordination of multi-modal input and output. SCoT also includes a set of domain independent tutorial rec...

The practice of science communication is fundamentally changing. This requires practitioners to continuously adapt their an ever-changing ecosystem and highlights the importance reflective for communication. In this study, we supported 21 in developing a practice. Our study shows that enabled becoming aware own stance towards or assumptions regarding audiences (single-loop learning), underlying...

This reflective piece tells the story of how I started out doing Conversation Analysis (CA) and have been transitioning into mixed methods for some years now. My basic argument is that language learning talk too complex a phenomenon to analyse using single methodology. Specifically, it extremely difficult isolate from interaction concrete evidence specific individual items in terms change cogni...

Decolonizing and Indigenizing work needs to be done in museums our day-to-day lives. On Turtle Island or so-called North America, the current settler colonial states add urgency this work. Many settlers live on stolen land benefit from structures ways that Indigenous friends, colleagues, hosts do not. This article presents a self-reflective account of two museum studies courses I have been part...