Browsing by Subject "Computational Linguistics"
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Advanced Assistive Technologies for Elderly People: A Psychological Perspective on Seniors' Needs and Preferences (part A)
(2020)This paper provides an overview of the literature concerning Seniors’ psychological perspective in exploiting assistive robots and the embodied conversational agents. The main theoretical models devoted to assess user’s ... -
Advanced Assistive Technologies for Elderly People: A Psychological Perspective on Seniors' Needs and Preferences (part B)
(2021)This paper provides a general overview of the literature regarding advanced assistive technologies devoted to improving elders’ life. Recent studies on assistive robots and embodied conversational agents ... -
Advancing and Validating Models of Cognitive Architecture
(2019)We present a methodology for proposing and evaluating components of cognitive architectures comprising complementary approaches: hypothesizing and behavioral mechanisms, evaluating the aptness of those mechanisms in providing ... -
Aspects of linguistic ageing in literary authors across time
(2021)This work offers an investigation into linguistic changes in a corpus of literary authors hypothesised to be possibly attributable to the effects of ageing. In part, the analysis replicates an earlier study into these ... -
CRF-Seq and CRF-DepTree at PARSEME Shared Task 2018: Detecting Verbal MWEs using Sequential and Dependency-Based Approaches
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018)This paper describes two systems for detecting Verbal Multiword Expressions (VMWEs) which both competed in the closed track at the PARSEME VMWE Shared Task 2018. CRF-DepTree- categs implements an approach based on the ... -
Emotional faces of children and adults: What changes in their perception
(IEEE, 2018)This work investigates disparities between children and middle aged adults in their ability to decode the six primary facial expressions of emotions when portrayed by contemporary children and adult faces. The analyses ... -
English Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets: A Survey
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021)This paper surveys 60 English Machine Reading Comprehension datasets, with a view to providing a convenient resource for other researchers interested in this problem. We categorize the datasets according to their question ... -
An Evaluation Method for Diachronic Word Sense Induction
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020)The task of Diachronic Word Sense Induction (DWSI) aims to identify the meaning of words from their context, taking the temporal dimension into account. In this paper we propose an evaluation method based on large-scale ... -
Formulaic Thought and Expression in Linguistic Politeness
(Peter Lang, 2019)Formulaic expressions constitute a heterogeneous category, in that some exhibit robust re-combinatory potential through modifiable and re-useable internal compositionality. Subcategories of linguistic politeness ... -
Gender Differences in Online Dating Experiences
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Gender Effects in Mobile Application Development.
(2020)Growing interest in the impact of gender on technology includes concerns with regard to gender bias and its implication in the user experience. Past explorations of gender and design revealed significant differences between ... -
The Influence of Personas' Gender in Design
(2021)In mobile application design, the construction of personas is a well-known technique that helps designers to empathise with users and to understand their needs. However, there are several issues that lead to stereotyped ... -
Is It Dish Washer Safe? Automatically Answering "Yes/No'' Questions Using Customer Reviews
(2019)It has become commonplace for people to share their opinions about all kinds of products by posting reviews online. It has also become commonplace for potential customers to do research about the quality and limitations ... -
Language and friendships: A co-evolution model of social and linguistic conventions
(World Scientific, 2012)Human social networks are dynamic, yet the majority of computational models of language evolution operate with either fixed or random interaction patterns between agents. This paper presents a model of lexicon formation ... -
Linguistic and Behaviour Interaction Analysis within Cognitive Infocommunications
(2019)Cognitive infocommunications is a discipline that examines the extensions of human cognitive capabilities that are assimilated within the concept of humanity. We argue that necessary (but not sufficient) conditions for the ... -
Map Task Deviation Scores: A Reconstruction
(2020)The Human Communication Research Centre Map Task Corpus is a landmark data source for analysis of multimodal dialogue corpora. The task in this dialogue is the communication by an information giver of a path on a map to ... -
Modelling Social Structures and Hierarchies in Language Evolution
(Springer, 2010)Language evolution might have preferred certain prior social configurations over others. Experiments conducted with models of different social structures (varying subgroup interactions and the role of a dominant interlocutor) ... -
Nouns and Verbs in Professional Reporting of Extreme Events
(2019)This corpus-based study tested whether linguistic devices that can evoke negative emotions are featured in Terrorist Attack news articles to a greater extent, in comparison to articles on Natural Disasters and Human ...
