Enabling machines to understand emotions and feelings of the human users in their natural language textual input during interaction is a challenging issue in Human Computing. Our work presented here has tried to make our contribution toward such machine automation. We report work on adding affect-detection to an existing e-drama program, a text-based software system for dramatic improvisation i...

Subjective and affective elements are well-known to influence human decision making. This dissertation presents a theoretical and empirical framework on how human decision makers’ subjective experience and affective prediction influence their choice behavior under uncertainty, frames and emotions. The framework extends and integrates existing theories of prospect theory (PT) and reinforcement l...

This paper describes how electronic grammars can be further enhanced by adding machine-readable grammars and treebanks. We explore the potential benefits of implemented grammars and treebanks for descriptive linguistics, following the discursive methodology of Bird & Simons (2003) and the values and maxims identified by Nordhoff (2008).1 We describe the resources which we believe make implement...

We show that the family of the Smale-Williams solenoid attractors parameterized by its contraction rate can be characterized as a solution of a differential equation. The exact formula describing the attractor can be obtained by solving the differential equation subject to an explicitly given initial condition. Using the formula, we present a simple and explicit proof that the dynamics on the s...

Individual differences across subjects and nonstationary characteristic of electroencephalography (EEG) limit the generalization of affective braincomputer interfaces in real-world applications. On the other hand, it is very time consuming and expensive to acquire a large number of subjectspecific labeled data for learning subject-specific models. In this paper, we propose to build personalized...

The present study aimed to evaluate the changes in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) after enrichment treatments with Thymus leptobotrys, a Moroccan endemic aromatic plant. EVOO sample was supplemented two materials obtained from aerial parts of T. leptobotrys: powder (2.5 and 5%) or essential (100 200 ppm). chemical composition analysis leptobotrys extracts (essential methanolic extract) allowed d...