This paper aimed at manifesting the role of significant attributes of conversation analysis in social interviews from a functional perspective. In this paper the concern would be on how these attributes of conversation analysis acted as important elements in analyzing the interviews. In particular, the author discussed some samples of B.B.C learning English interviews which considered some conv...

Conversations between two people are ubiquitous in many inhabited contexts. The kinds of conversations that occur depend on several factors, including the time, the location of the participating agents, the spatial relationship between the agents, and the type of conversation in which they are engaged. The statistical distribution of dyadic conversations among a population of agents will theref...

This paper presents and evaluates several original techniques for the latent classification of biographic attributes such as gender, age and native language, in diverse genres (conversation transcripts, email) and languages (Arabic, English). First, we present a novel partner-sensitive model for extracting biographic attributes in conversations, given the differences in lexical usage and discou...

In order to provide flexible control over agent communication, we propose an integrated approach that involves using positive and negative permissions and obligations to describe both conversation specifications and policies. Conversation specifications are described in terms of the speech acts that an agent can/cannot/must/must not perform based on the sequence of messages received and sent. O...

Pedagogical strategies increasing rely on technology as a way to address challenges facing the contemporary higher education classroom. This study investigated the use of a tool designed with the specific purpose of student engagement in a large classroom. The tool allows students to post to a community based discussion in a manner similar to a Twitter feed. Despite engaging in a community dial...

Electronic meeting control has been the focus of many research efforts; however, extensively adopted standards are still unavailable. In this paper, we present a generic model for electronic meeting control. Our model is based on the formal meeting protocol commonly known as the parliamentary procedure or Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO). Capturing the essential features of traditional RRO, we sug...

Our group OKSAT submitted five runs for Chinese and Japanese subtasks of the NTCIR-12 Short Text Conversation task (STC). We searched not only posts but also comments for terms of each query (post). We also gave more priority to short comments than longer ones. Then we filtered retrieved comments by characteristic words including proper nouns. We added attributes to the corpus and also to the q...

A multimodal system for acquiring new objects, updating already known ones, and searching for them is presented. The system is able to learn objects and associate them to speech received from a speech recogniser in a natural and convenient fashion. The learning and retrieval process takes into account information gained from multiple attributes calculated from an image recorded by a standard vi...