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 ... -
CLG Authorship Analytics: a library for authorship verification
(2022)The task of authorship verification consists in detecting whether two texts have been written by the same person. This paper describes the CLG Authorship Analytics software, which implements several individual methods as ... -
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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Gesture and Part-of-Speech Alignment in Dialogue
(2022)This paper studies the relation between language and gesture in interaction by investigating the temporal alignment of gestures and the words they co-occur with in a corpus of taskbased dialogues. Specifically, we examine ... -
The impact of gender-inclusive methods on design decision making
(Sette Citta, 2023)Many assumptions regarding gender biases in design have been raised in recent decades, such as that gender stereotypes can be ingrained in products and services (Akrich, 1992; van Oost, 2003) and that the gender imbalance ... -
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 ... -
Is Your Application Gender Biased?
(2019)The process of design is underpinned by a solid methodology that comprises stages of research, creation and validation of the ideas in order to ensure that a product or a service will meet the users’ needs. However, in the ... -
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 ...