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 ... -
Chat, Chunk and Topic in Casual Conversation
(2018)Casual conversation does not follow a highly interactive ‘ping-pong’ structure but rather develops as a sequence of ‘chat’ and ‘chunk’ phases. Chat phases are highly interactive stretches amenable to Conversation Analysis, ... -
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 ... -
Detection of Verbal Multi-Word Expressions via Conditional Random Fields with Syntactic Dependency Features and Semantic Re-Ranking
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017)A description of a system for identifying Verbal Multi-Word Expressions (VMWEs) in running text is presented. The system mainly exploits universal syntactic dependency features through a Conditional Random Fields (CRF) ... -
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 ... -
Following the Trail of Source Languages in Literary Translations
(Springer, 2014)We build on past research in distinguishing English translations from originally English text, and in guessing the source language where the text is deemed to be a translation. We replicate an extant method in relation to ... -
Found in translation: Computational discovery of translation effects
(2013)We describe translation effects that have been studied in the the automated text classification literature. We expand on a point within this research space, quality effects, with our own work in this area. We present an ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Laughter and Topic Changes: Temporal Distribution and Information Flow
(IEEE, 2012)Laughter is an important component of social interaction that has attracted interest within conversational analysis. However, it is not universally accepted that laughs have a function in discourse structure. In this study ... -
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 ...