The article is devoted to the study of the evaluative component of the meaning of lexical means used to describe relations between family members in the novel “In Chancery” by J. Galsworthy. The relevance of t &he study can be attributed to the lack of works devoted to this problem. As the results of our study demonstrate, the words of the lexical-semantic group “family” were mainly used to ver...

In this paper we present an innovative work on a multiagent joking conversational system. In our research so far we have shown that implementing humor into a chatterbot can visibly improve its performance. The results presented in this paper are the outcome of the next step of our work. They show that a multiagent system, combining a conversational agent, a pun generator and an emotiveness anal...

In this paper we introduce our idea of emotiveness-analysis-based timing algorithm, aimed to detect conditions in which it is appropriate to tell a joke in a conversation. We briefly summarize existing works concerning correlations between emotions and humor and describe the outline of proposed algorithm. The concept is to be used in our research on joking conversational systems.

BACKGROUND The use of pejorative terms for patients is well documented. Reasons include frustration and anger in managing certain patients, fostering group solidarity among caregivers under stress, and the alleged "dehumanization" of medical training. Medical students were surveyed to document and understand the phenomenon. METHODS The 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1996 Johns Hopkins University Medic...

OBJECTIVES Intrusive memories of extreme trauma can disrupt a stepwise approach to imaginal exposure. Concurrent tasks that load the visuospatial sketchpad (VSSP) of working memory reduce the vividness of recalled images. This study tested whether relief of distress from competing VSSP tasks during imaginal exposure is at the cost of impaired desensitization. DESIGN This study examined repeat...

To the Editor: As someone with an interest in case reports (1-3), I read your editorial regarding the comeback of the case report with great interest (4). The three case reports that you published (5-7) are a great read. The case report by Nosan et al (6) mentions an “antimongoloid palpebral slant,” which is a term with pejorative connotations (8,9). A more informative and appropriate term woul...