Browsing by Subject "semantics"
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The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
(2015)The dynamics of social interactions during human-human conversation have attracted the attention of many researchers aiming at improving the naturalness of automatic dialogue systems and creating socially aware machines. ... -
Extending Siena to support more expressive and flexible subscriptions
(2008)This paper defines and discusses the implementation of two novel extensions to the Siena Content-based Network (CBN) to extend it to become a Knowledge-based Network (KBN) thereby increasing the expressiveness and ... -
Some Puzzles of Politeness and Impoliteness within a Formal Semantics of Offensive Language
(Springer, 2015)Puzzles of linguistic politeness and impoliteness are outlined. A framework for articulating formal semantic theories of linguistic politeness and impoliteness is adopted. The framework provides a foundation for a ... -
Taboo Semantics
(IEEE, 2014)