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We propose an approach to overcome cultural barriers, specifically pragmatic misunderstandings about the intention of the speaker by annotating domain specific language resources according to an ontology based on speech acts. These annotations are capable to account for indirect speech acts as well as for phenomena of mitigation and reinforcement. The presented architecture preserves the original...
Within the medical settings, multiple intelligent agents (including doctors, nurses, patients, and various medical information systems) exist that differ in terms of backgrounds, knowledge bases, and their usage of terminology. In order to support safe and effective medical communication between these multiple intelligent agents, this paper reviews and discusses some ontological studies of verbal...
In this paper, we discuss a user interface issue with regard to automatic video editing based on the speaker's intentions. In our experiments, the subjects used previously developed video capturing system to employ 4 types of editing methods by making 3 types of presentations. Subjective evaluation revealed that the editing method that used behaviors-for-attention obtained a good score for a presentation...
With the development of data processing technology, the number of people using a computer is rapidly growing now. And they came to use it in the everyday life of ordinary homes. However, it is hard for elderly people and disabled persons to treat an interface device such as a mouse and a keyboard. For this reason, the dialog system is needed that permits them to dialog with a computer. A virtual human...
The studies reported here contrasted the effects of making a criticism directly with that of making it indirectly (via sarcasm). These effects were examined either when the focus was on the person who uttered the criticism (Study 1) or when the focus was on the person to whom the barb is directed (Study 2). Moreover, we studied the beliefs associated with sarcastic uses from four different points-of-view:...
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