In this paper, we propose a partial framework for annotating conversation with discourse and interaction information. We focus discourse coherence, reported speech and humor that are not included in most of existing dialogue annotation frameworks. These phenomena are ubiquitous in our conversational but their analysis seems necessary for all kind of communicative situations, including task-orie...

A slriking difference between the interactions that students have with human tutors and those they have with computer-based instruction systems is that human tutors frequently refer to their own previous explanations. Based on a study of human-human instructional interactions, we are categorizing the uses of previous discourse and are developing a computational model of this behavior. In this p...

It is intuitive in many situations to view an interactive computer system as an agent with which the user collaborates. From this point of view, such systems will be easier to use (especially for novices) if they obey the same rules and conventions of collaborative discourse that people are familiar with from everyday experience. This note describes an experiment in progress that begins to syst...

This paper reports a new approach to coaching collaboration in a synchronous distance learning context. Prior work on supporting collaboration has relied largely on comparing student discourse to models of collaborative discourse. Comparison of student work to expert solutions is prevalent in individual coaching paradigms. Although these approaches are valuable, our approach evaluates the poten...

If depicted objects visually remain where they are, but are linguistically described as moving to new locations (‘onto the table’), subsequent reference to them directs attention to their new locations. But, do these attentional shifts depend on updated spatial screen coordinates, or new object associations? We investigated situations wherein depicted containers moved between spatial locations ...

There is an ever-greater emphasis on the maintenance of professional standards in communication among medical professionals. Much of the focus to date revolves around discourse between patients and families in the clinical arena and reflects standards developed by accrediting agencies and the government. Little has been written about the communication among professionals occurring in the admini...

When developing natural language interfaces, it is important to know the characteristics of the language used. We have developed a set of tools for conducting human-computer natural language dialogue simulations (Wizard of Oz experiments) and for analyzing the data obtained. We report methods used and results obtained from a series of such experiments. The focus of the study was on occasional u...

This synthesis paper is intended to provide an overview of individual and collective decisionmaking processes that might serve as a theoretical foundation for a complexity-based approach to environmental policy design and natural resource management planning. Human activities are the primary drivers of change in the Earth’s biosphere today, so efforts to shift the trajectory of social–ecologica...

Binary thinking is a way of understanding the world around. It used to oversimplify complex situations and reality. Dichotomous usually uses an innate hierarchy tow objects or it makes binary Urdu Novel since its inception opposites foreground characters likes dislikes. In this article Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as method underscore in Novel. The maps social conditions discourse shows ho...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by iranian nonnative speakers (nnss) of english and canadian native speakers (nss) of english to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and l1’s (possible) influence. ...