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SCOPUS_ID:84947259110
"I am what i am": Multilingual identity and digital translanguaging
This paper presents a case study of the multilingual writing practices of a Serbian university student on Facebook, examining how he uses multiple varieties of English and Serbian, images, and video to shape his online identity and establish membership in local and global communities. Drawing on data from stimulated-re...
[ "Visual Data in NLP", "Multimodality", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 20, 74, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85149765247
"I dance Too": Girls Identity reflections with a social robot
Identity reflection is important in CS education to encourage learners to shape their environment as techno-social change agents and drive their innovation, but current curricula lack this emphasis. We develop a coding scheme to understand learners' identity reflections and hypothesize a dialogue design to foster ident...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85042425005
"I do which the question": Students' innovative use of technology resources in the language classroom
Many reports suggest that the use of education technology can have a positive effect on language education. However, most of the research indicates that there is need for more detailed understanding of the pedagogical processes that support technology-enhanced language learning. This text takes a social semiotic perspe...
[ "Multimodality" ]
[ 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85135051925
"I don't know what you mean by 'I am anxious'": A New Method for Evaluating Conversational Agent Responses to Standardized Mental Health Inputs for Anxiety and Depression
Conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly ubiquitous and are now commonly used to access medical information. However, we lack systematic data about the quality of advice such agents provide. This paper evaluates CA advice for mental health (MH) questions, a pressing issue given that we are undergoing a mental healt...
[ "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Ethical NLP", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 4, 11, 17, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85136560722
"I don't think education is the answer": A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of plastics discourses in the UK
Ecosystems around the world are becoming engulfed in single-use plastics, the majority of which come from plastic packaging. Reusable plastic packaging systems have been proposed in response to this plastic waste crisis, but uptake of such systems in the UK is still very low. This article draws on a thematic corpus of ...
[ "Cognitive Modeling", "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP" ]
[ 2, 48 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84948124210
"I feel we don't really understand each other": Interpreting medication instructions for a Turkish-speaking diabetes patient
This paper is based on a videotaped diabetes consultation involving a German-speaking physician, a Turkish-speaking diabetes patient and a Turkish-German interpreter who has been working in medical settings for a number of years. In the course of the consultation, the physician focuses several times on the importance o...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Explainability & Interpretability in NLP", "Semantic Text Processing", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 71, 81, 72, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84952306270
"I grade what i get but write what i think." inconsistency analysis in patients' reviews
Received medical services are increasingly discussed and recommended on physician rating websites (PRWs). The reviews and ratings on these platforms are valuable sources of information for patient opinion mining. In this paper, we have tackled three issues that come along with inconsistency analysis on PRWs: (1) Natura...
[ "Polarity Analysis", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 33, 78 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84873975664
"I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew I was American": A critical discourse analysis of a dialogic speech event
Unpacking a dialogic speech event that took place in an ESOL teacher education class, this article explores an instance of struggle over ascribed, commonsense meanings that include some U.S. Americans and exclude others. The incident-what Fairclough (1992) has called a "moment of crisis" -turned out to be a powerful, t...
[ "Semantic Text Processing", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents", "Multimodality" ]
[ 72, 70, 71, 11, 38, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:0030170846
"I only listen to one person at a time": Dissonance and resonance in talk about talk
Close examination of a segment of classroom discourse permits definition of a set of linguistic devices and rhetorical structures that characterize the primary speaker's repertoire. As the discourse moves from dialog to monolog, and the teacher's roles and ideological assumptions come into conflict, these discourse pat...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05856v1
"I think this is the most disruptive technology": Exploring Sentiments of ChatGPT Early Adopters using Twitter Data
Large language models have recently attracted significant attention due to their impressive performance on a variety of tasks. ChatGPT developed by OpenAI is one such implementation of a large, pre-trained language model that has gained immense popularity among early adopters, where certain users go to the extent of ch...
[ "Language Models", "Semantic Text Processing", "Sentiment Analysis", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 52, 72, 78, 11, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84891346858
"I'm Khmer and I'm not a gangster!": The problematization of Cambodian male youth in US schools
In response to a literature that has paid limited attention to the complex representations of Cambodian students, this article investigated the ways in which Cambodian male youth were problematized in school through Discourses that presented them as apathetic students and/or gang members at one California high school. ...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:0036875413
"I'm Mommy and you're Natalie": Role-reversal and embedded frames in mother-child discourse
This study investigates framing in discourse while considering spontaneous role-play between a young child (age 2 years 11 months) and her mother, wherein the participants reverse roles from real life and reenact shared prior experiences. Data consist of two tape-recorded naturally occurring pretend-play episodes and t...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06511v2
"I'm Not Mad": Commonsense Implications of Negation and Contradiction
Natural language inference requires reasoning about contradictions, negations, and their commonsense implications. Given a simple premise (e.g., "I'm mad at you"), humans can reason about the varying shades of contradictory statements ranging from straightforward negations ("I'm not mad at you") to commonsense contradi...
[ "Commonsense Reasoning", "Reasoning", "Textual Inference" ]
[ 62, 8, 22 ]
SCOPUS_ID:2142767033
"I'm a woman but I know God leads my way": Agency and Tzotzil evangelical discourse
For indigenous Tzotzil Protestants in Chiapas, the emergence of a new discourse about God is restructuring social interactions. Discourse data point to an arresting intersection of Protestant beliefs, discourse strategies, and gender. This case study supports recent theorizing in language and gender concerning the need...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:83255165405
"I'm eating a sandwich in Glasgow": Modeling locations with tweets
Social media such as Twitter generate large quantities of data about what a person is thinking and doing in a particular location. We leverage this data to build models of locations to improve our understanding of a user's geographic context. Understanding the user's geographic context can in turn enable a variety of s...
[ "Language Models", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 52, 72 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09209v2
"I'm sorry to hear that": Finding New Biases in Language Models with a Holistic Descriptor Dataset
As language models grow in popularity, it becomes increasingly important to clearly measure all possible markers of demographic identity in order to avoid perpetuating existing societal harms. Many datasets for measuring bias currently exist, but they are restricted in their coverage of demographic axes and are commonl...
[ "Language Models", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 52, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84857100505
"In pain waiting to die" : Everyday understandings of suffering
Objective: The notion of "suffering" is understood in very different ways in a variety of contexts. In palliative care, the relief and prevention of suffering is considered to be a fundamental goal (Pastrana et al., 2008). However, the avoidance of suffering has also been used as an argument by those campaigning for th...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84978388619
"In theory, it is perfect". The particle in theory: Assertive weakening, predictive argumentative markers, and discoursive patterns
In certain syntactic contexts, the adverbial expression in theory operates works as a modal discourse particle that weakens the assertion. It can also work as an argumentative operator, according to the Argumentation Theory's definition. Specifically, we argue that, as in principle and similar discourse particles with ...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing", "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP", "Linguistic Theories" ]
[ 71, 72, 48, 57 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84921984658
"Interactive" undergraduate students: UNIPD at iCLEF 2008
This is the first year of participation of the University of Padua to the interactive CLEF track. A group of students of Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities were asked to participate in the experiment. An analysis of the questionnaires together with some log analysis is carried out with the aim of studying: the in...
[ "Cross-Lingual Transfer", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 19, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:33750497599
"Invandrarfilm" som ideologisk och kulturell praktik
The main objective of this Article is to summarise three theoretical perspectives in order to explain the most common way 'immigrants' are represented in Swedish films during the last 30 years - 1970-2000. On the one hand 'the immigrant' is represented as sympathetic, which I interpret as an anti-racist counter discour...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00286v2
"Is Whole Word Masking Always Better for Chinese BERT?": Probing on Chinese Grammatical Error Correction
Whole word masking (WWM), which masks all subwords corresponding to a word at once, makes a better English BERT model. For the Chinese language, however, there is no subword because each token is an atomic character. The meaning of a word in Chinese is different in that a word is a compositional unit consisting of mult...
[ "Language Models", "Text Error Correction", "Semantic Text Processing", "Syntactic Text Processing" ]
[ 52, 26, 72, 15 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01222v1
"Is depression related to cannabis?": A knowledge-infused model for Entity and Relation Extraction with Limited Supervision
With strong marketing advocacy of the benefits of cannabis use for improved mental health, cannabis legalization is a priority among legislators. However, preliminary scientific research does not conclusively associate cannabis with improved mental health. In this study, we explore the relationship between depression a...
[ "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP", "Relation Extraction", "Ethical NLP", "Information Extraction & Text Mining" ]
[ 4, 75, 17, 3 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85060978579
"Is it useful to talk to other cancer patients?": A discourse study of lay perceptions of knowledge and expertise in an online support group
A growing body of research highlights how patients' use of the Internet, including constructing, sharing personal stories, and accessing knowledge online, gives rise to a new form of lay expertise, which may further challenge the expertise of medical professionals. Accentuating patients' perspectives, this paper invest...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03044v1
"Is there anything else I can help you with?": Challenges in Deploying an On-Demand Crowd-Powered Conversational Agent
Intelligent conversational assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, and Amazon's Echo, have quickly become a part of our digital life. However, these assistants have major limitations, which prevents users from conversing with them as they would with human dialog partners. This limits our ability to obser...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 38 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07878v1
"Is this an example image?" -- Predicting the Relative Abstractness Level of Image and Text
Successful multimodal search and retrieval requires the automatic understanding of semantic cross-modal relations, which, however, is still an open research problem. Previous work has suggested the metrics cross-modal mutual information and semantic correlation to model and predict cross-modal semantic relations of ima...
[ "Visual Data in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 20, 74 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07576v1
"It doesn't look good for a date": Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems
Conversations aimed at determining good recommendations are iterative in nature. People often express their preferences in terms of a critique of the current recommendation (e.g., "It doesn't look good for a date"), requiring some degree of common sense for a preference to be inferred. In this work, we present a method...
[ "Language Models", "Semantic Text Processing", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents", "Information Retrieval" ]
[ 52, 72, 11, 38, 24 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84865543204
"It is not my intention to be a killjoy...": Objecting to a Licence Application-The Complainers
This paper explores the constructed nature of legal complaints through the adoption of a socio-linguistic model with an emphasis upon pragmatics and elements of conversation analysis. When making a legal complaint, we posit that there is a conflict between effective communication and the uptake of politeness strategies...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85130511653
"It's Kind of Like Code-Switching": Black Older Adults' Experiences with a Voice Assistant for Health Information Seeking
Black older adults from lower socioeconomic environments are often neglected in health technology interventions. Voice assistants have a potential to make healthcare more accessible to older adults, yet, little is known about their experiences with this type of health information seeking, especially Black older adults....
[ "Code-Switching", "Multimodality", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 7, 74, 70, 0 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15870v1
"It's Not Just Hate'': A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Detecting Harmful Speech Online
Well-annotated data is a prerequisite for good Natural Language Processing models. Too often, though, annotation decisions are governed by optimizing time or annotator agreement. We make a case for nuanced efforts in an interdisciplinary setting for annotating offensive online speech. Detecting offensive content is rap...
[ "Ethical NLP", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 17, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85100279932
"It's Pure Panic": The Portrayal of Residential Care in American Newspapers during COVID-19
Background and Objectives: This study examines the discursive construction of residential care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 3 leading American newspapers: The New York Times, USA Today, and The New York Post. Research Design and Methods: A total of 54 news articles between January 21 and M...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84868693627
"It's just a clash of cultures": Emotional talk within medical students' narratives of professionalism dilemmas
Recent investigations into the UK National Health Service revealed doctors' failures to act with compassion and professionalism towards patients. The British media asked questions about what happens to students during their learning that influences such behaviour as doctors. We listened to 200 medical students' narrati...
[ "Emotion Analysis", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 61, 78 ]
SCOPUS_ID:36549042369
"It's just the nature of the beast": Re-imagining the literacies of schooling in adult ESL education
With a view of standardized testing as a situated local practice that serves "global" agendas, I examine the specific ways that this bureaucratic mechanism receives, sorts, arranges and classifies adult learners of English; inspires certain pedagogical practices; and fosters identities desired by the new global economy...
[ "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP", "Linguistic Theories" ]
[ 48, 57 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85150315457
"It's like asking for a necktie when you don't have underwear": Discourses on patient rights in southern Karnataka, India
BACKGROUND: Ensuring patient rights is an extension of applying human rights principles to health care. A critical examination of how the notion of patient rights is perceived and enacted by various actors through critical discourse analysis (CDA) can help understand the impediments to its realization in practice. METH...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:34948859441
"It's not necessarily the words you say...it's your presentation": Teaching the interactional text of the job interview
This article explores one institution's efforts to teach strategies for succeeding in a customer service job interview. The study takes place at Possibilities Inn, a work-training program aimed at preparing underemployed and unemployed African American adults for jobs in the hospitality industry. In this article, I exp...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85102188275
"Iππος χλωρός (Rev 6.8): A methodology for the study of colour terms in the new testament
The meaning of χλωρός in Rev 6.8 has been given a variety of interpretations (green, yellow, pale, vigorous etc.) due to its polysemic character; that is, it possesses a chromatic as well as an achromatic meaning and, in addition, if it denotes colour, can express a wide spectrum of hues. From this arises the need for ...
[ "Cognitive Modeling", "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP" ]
[ 2, 48 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85118576538
"Knock Knock, Here Is an Answer from Next Door": Designing a Knowledge Sharing Chatbot to Connect Residents: Community Chatbot Design Case Study
Our purpose is to investigate the potential use of chatbots for information sharing and social connection within a co-living space. To this end, we designed a chatbot for residents of a co-living space based on the following principles: (1) The range of shared information is limited to three areas derived from the simi...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84963815144
"Koos says..." : A critical discourse analysis of the meta-capital of a prominent South African media tycoon
This article, "Koos says...": A critical discourse analysis of the meta-capital of a prominent South African media tycoon, engages the public statements of Koos Bekker, CEO of Africa's largest media company, Naspers. Bekker is renowned as a visionary entrepreneur and has made a personal fortune in the process of taking...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing", "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP", "Linguistic Theories" ]
[ 71, 72, 48, 57 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84902664279
"Language as calculus" in Beckett's writing: A new perspective on Beckett's conception of language
The issue of the conception of language in Beckett's works has given rise to many studies. The conceptual schemes that scholars have used to explicate Beckett's view on language range from modern language theories to post-structuralist ones, and have contributed to locating Beckett on the twentieth-century's cultural h...
[ "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP", "Linguistic Theories" ]
[ 48, 57 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10952v1
"Laughing at you or with you": The Role of Sarcasm in Shaping the Disagreement Space
Detecting arguments in online interactions is useful to understand how conflicts arise and get resolved. Users often use figurative language, such as sarcasm, either as persuasive devices or to attack the opponent by an ad hominem argument. To further our understanding of the role of sarcasm in shaping the disagreement...
[ "Text Classification", "Sentiment Analysis", "Stylistic Analysis", "Information Retrieval", "Information Extraction & Text Mining" ]
[ 36, 78, 67, 24, 3 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01878v1
"LazImpa": Lazy and Impatient neural agents learn to communicate efficiently
Previous work has shown that artificial neural agents naturally develop surprisingly non-efficient codes. This is illustrated by the fact that in a referential game involving a speaker and a listener neural networks optimizing accurate transmission over a discrete channel, the emergent messages fail to achieve an optim...
[ "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP", "Green & Sustainable NLP" ]
[ 4, 68 ]
SCOPUS_ID:0037939790
"LentInfo" information - Providing system for the festival lent programme
This paper presents an application, "Lentlnfo", which is a system used to provide information about programmes for the Festival Lent in Slovenia. The Festival Lent consists of different open-air theatre and music performances and raws more than 400,000 visitors per year. This application is based on a Hidden Markov Mod...
[ "Programming Languages in NLP", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents", "Multimodality" ]
[ 55, 70, 11, 38, 74 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03029v2
"Let's Eat Grandma": Does Punctuation Matter in Sentence Representation?
Neural network-based embeddings have been the mainstream approach for creating a vector representation of the text to capture lexical and semantic similarities and dissimilarities. In general, existing encoding methods dismiss the punctuation as insignificant information; consequently, they are routinely treated as a p...
[ "Semantic Text Processing", "Representation Learning" ]
[ 72, 12 ]
SCOPUS_ID:73549122768
"Letosvet": A vulgar song or a folk-(socio) linguistic experiment?
The article explores the song Letosvet that represented Estonia in 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrad. The song is remarkable in several respects: 1) it is an imitation of Serbian, a language that Estonians have practically no contact and, therefore, ready-made imitation devices do not exist; 2) the song has gener...
[ "Multilinguality" ]
[ 0 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00648v1
"Liar, Liar Pants on Fire": A New Benchmark Dataset for Fake News Detection
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in deception detection, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. However, statistical approaches to combating fake news has been dramatically limited by the lack of labeled benchmark datasets. In this paper, we present liar: a new, publicly av...
[ "Reasoning", "Fact & Claim Verification", "Ethical NLP", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 8, 46, 17, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85086237681
"Lies", "dirty madness", "daylight robbery": How henryk sienkiewicz verbalised negative judgments and emotions (based on private correspondence)
This article is part of a stream of research on the language and style of private correspondence of Henryk Sienkiewicz. The article contains analysis of expressive lexis that the writer used to verbalise his negative judgments and feelings, which is complex, rich and diverse in terms of both form and meaning. The lexic...
[ "Ethical NLP", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 17, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85014740416
"Like having a really bad pa": The gulf between user expectation and experience of conversational agents
The past four years have seen the rise of conversational agents (CAs) in everyday life. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook have all embedded proprietary CAs within their software and, increasingly, conversation is becoming a key mode of human-computer interaction. Whilst we have long been familiar with the n...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 38 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09704v3
"Listen, Understand and Translate": Triple Supervision Decouples End-to-end Speech-to-text Translation
An end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) takes audio in a source language and outputs the text in a target language. Existing methods are limited by the amount of parallel corpus. Can we build a system to fully utilize signals in a parallel ST corpus? We are inspired by human understanding system which is composed...
[ "Language Models", "Semantic Text Processing", "Machine Translation", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality", "Text Generation", "Speech Recognition", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 52, 72, 51, 70, 74, 47, 10, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84963701835
"Long, boring, and tedious": Youths' experiences with complex, religious texts
Growing out of the renewed attention to text complexity in the United States and the large population of youth who are deeply committed to reading scripture, this study explores 16 Latter-day Saint and Methodist youths' experiences with complex, religious texts. The study took place in the Midwestern United States. Dat...
[ "Semantic Text Processing", "Text Complexity" ]
[ 72, 42 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2993v1
"Look Ma, No Hands!" A Parameter-Free Topic Model
It has always been a burden to the users of statistical topic models to predetermine the right number of topics, which is a key parameter of most topic models. Conventionally, automatic selection of this parameter is done through either statistical model selection (e.g., cross-validation, AIC, or BIC) or Bayesian nonpa...
[ "Topic Modeling", "Information Extraction & Text Mining" ]
[ 9, 3 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00733v1
"Love is as Complex as Math": Metaphor Generation System for Social Chatbot
As the wide adoption of intelligent chatbot in human daily life, user demands for such systems evolve from basic task-solving conversations to more casual and friend-like communication. To meet the user needs and build emotional bond with users, it is essential for social chatbots to incorporate more human-like and adv...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Reasoning", "Numerical Reasoning", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 8, 5, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:80052685092
"Lucky Cloud" over the world: The journalistic discourse of nationalism beyond China in the Beijing olympics global torch relay
This study uses critical discourse analysis to explore the role journalism plays in the discursive formation of nationalism in an event of global visibility that lay outside the daily news making routine*the coverage of the Beijing Olympics global torch relay by newspapers in China. Taking Fairclough's analysis framewo...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85079842482
"Machine translation and post-editing: Profiles and competences in translator training programmes"
Studies on the professional translation market show that employers increasingly demand translators who master tools related to machine translation. This fact compels translator training centers to consider what the new professional profiles are and what new competences students should acquire. In this article we reflec...
[ "Programming Languages in NLP", "Machine Translation", "Multimodality", "Text Generation", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 55, 51, 74, 47, 0 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02508v1
"Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand'': A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations
As AI is more and more pervasive in everyday life, humans have an increasing demand to understand its behavior and decisions. Most research on explainable AI builds on the premise that there is one ideal explanation to be found. In fact, however, everyday explanations are co-constructed in a dialogue between the person...
[ "Explainability & Interpretability in NLP", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 81, 11, 4, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84874762712
"Manual de linguística": Homonymous or polysemy in the history?
From theoretical and methodological principles of the Historiography of Linguistics (with the use of categories such as research programs, theory groups and the argument of influence), this paper presents an analysis of two moments of Brazilian production in linguistics, taking as its object, two handbooks published wi...
[ "Argument Mining", "Reasoning" ]
[ 60, 8 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08039v1
"Mask and Infill" : Applying Masked Language Model to Sentiment Transfer
This paper focuses on the task of sentiment transfer on non-parallel text, which modifies sentiment attributes (e.g., positive or negative) of sentences while preserving their attribute-independent content. Due to the limited capability of RNNbased encoder-decoder structure to capture deep and long-range dependencies a...
[ "Language Models", "Semantic Text Processing", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 52, 72, 78 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84900450244
"Maybe it was a joke"- Emotion detection in text-only communication by non-native English speakers
Previous studies have shown that people can effectively detect emotions in text-only messages written in their native languages. But is this the same for non-native speakers? In this paper, we conduct an experiment where native English speakers (NS) and Japanese non-native English speakers (NNS) rate the emotional vale...
[ "Emotion Analysis", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 61, 78 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85049644879
"Memories of childhood" by ion creangǎ: Style and stylistics
The unrivalled virtue possessed by Ion Creangǎ is that of revealing and using the creative force of popular words. The writer creates in a popular style, keeping the regional phonetics, the easiness of the colloquial speech, the proverbs and sayings. The "spoken" character of Ion Creangǎ's language manifests itself wit...
[ "Stylistic Analysis", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 67, 78 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84897560828
"Mind your own esteemed business": Sarcastic honorifics use and impoliteness in Korean TV dramas
Honorifics have traditionally been analyzed as markers of "deference" and have been connected with positive values such as "respect", "dignity" and "elegance". However, in this paper, I demonstrate that these readings only apply to normative and stereotypical patterns of honorifics use. When applied in other contexts, ...
[ "Stylistic Analysis", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 67, 78 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01169v1
"More Than Words": Linking Music Preferences and Moral Values Through Lyrics
This study explores the association between music preferences and moral values by applying text analysis techniques to lyrics. Harvesting data from a Facebook-hosted application, we align psychometric scores of 1,386 users to lyrics from the top 5 songs of their preferred music artists as emerged from Facebook Page Lik...
[ "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 70, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84863656809
"Move away so I can hear!"- American and Iranian male university students' responses to rudeness - A pilot study
Although speech acts are universal phenomena which occur in all languages, the realizations of speech acts are culturally-specific. Language learners should not only have linguistic competence, but they should also be aware of the appropriate use of a given function in the target language. In addition, unlike certain s...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 71, 72, 70, 74 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06401v1
"My Way of Telling a Story": Persona based Grounded Story Generation
Visual storytelling is the task of generating stories based on a sequence of images. Inspired by the recent works in neural generation focusing on controlling the form of text, this paper explores the idea of generating these stories in different personas. However, one of the main challenges of performing this task is ...
[ "Visual Data in NLP", "Text Generation", "Multimodality" ]
[ 20, 47, 74 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13953v2
"My nose is running.""Are you also coughing?": Building A Medical Diagnosis Agent with Interpretable Inquiry Logics
With the rise of telemedicine, the task of developing Dialogue Systems for Medical Diagnosis (DSMD) has received much attention in recent years. Different from early researches that needed to rely on extra human resources and expertise to help construct the system, recent researches focused on how to build DSMD in a pu...
[ "Explainability & Interpretability in NLP", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 81, 11, 4, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:35948986369
"No flips in the pool": Discursive practice in Hawai'i Creole
Linguistic: hybridity is the process of the authorial unmasking of another's speech, through a language that is double-accented and double-styled. The present study investigates how linguistic resources, especially code-switching is used for meaning making in local comedy shows in Hawai'i. Local comedy is inseparable f...
[ "Code-Switching", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 7, 0 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02526v1
"No, they did not": Dialogue response dynamics in pre-trained language models
A critical component of competence in language is being able to identify relevant components of an utterance and reply appropriately. In this paper we examine the extent of such dialogue response sensitivity in pre-trained language models, conducting a series of experiments with a particular focus on sensitivity to dyn...
[ "Language Models", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Semantic Text Processing", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 52, 11, 72, 38 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01926v2
"None of the Above":Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval
This paper discusses the importance of uncovering uncertainty in end-to-end dialog tasks, and presents our experimental results on uncertainty classification on the Ubuntu Dialog Corpus. We show that, instead of retraining models for this specific purpose, the original retrieval model's underlying confidence concerning...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Information Retrieval", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 24, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84906674750
"Nous autres cest toujours bilingue anyways": Code-switching and linguistic displacement among bilingual Montréal students
Code-switching (CS) is a linguistic phenomenon in which a bilingual speaker switches freely between their languages (codes) within a single utterance, conversational turn, or conversation. Linguists can often pinpoint a "we" code and a "they" code based on the speakers respective comfort levels with the two languages. ...
[ "Code-Switching", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 7, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85041850045
"Now to my distress": Shame discourse in eighteenth-century English letters
It is argued that shame has become increasingly important as a mechanism of social control in Western societies while our awareness of shame has simultaneously decreased. This paper explores the functions of the lexemes shame, disgrace and ignominy in the eighteenth-century section of the Corpus of Early English Corres...
[ "Emotion Analysis", "Sentiment Analysis" ]
[ 61, 78 ]
SCOPUS_ID:83255165740
"Nut case: What does it mean?" Understanding semantic relationship between nouns in noun compounds through paraphrasing and ranking the paraphrases
A noun compound (NC) is a sequence of two or more nouns (entities) acting as a single noun entity that encodes implicit semantic relation between its noun constituents. Given an NC such as 'headache pills' and possible paraphrases such as: 'pills that induce headache' or 'pills that relieve head-ache' can we learn to c...
[ "Paraphrasing", "Information Extraction & Text Mining", "Text Generation", "Text Clustering" ]
[ 32, 3, 47, 29 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84864496039
"O Heiland reiß die Himmel auf" Zu Textkritik, Syntax und Semantik von Jes 45,8
Isa 45:8 presents various textcritical, syntactic and semantic difficulties. The problems with the numerus could be solved by a different syntactic structure of the sentences. To get a syntactically well-balanced verse, only a minor textcritical correction has to be done: "The earth will open, and relief and justice wi...
[ "Syntactic Text Processing" ]
[ 15 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84868649617
"Okay, My Rant is Over": The Language of Emotion in Computer-Mediated Communication
Even when instructors take steps to mitigate conflict between students, online discussions are likely to be more emotional than face-to-face discussions, and student posts frequently bear characteristics of ranting. This paper uses a model from the field of psycholinguistics to identify linguistic features that writers...
[ "Psycholinguistics", "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP" ]
[ 77, 48 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85107713550
"Omega-team is moving to another premise over my dead body..." Power as discursive-material practice in an is project
Using Foucault's (e.g., 1980) view on discourses and power, this Critical Discourse Analysis study examines how power circulates through material-discursive practices in IS development projects. The findings of this study indicate that one of the key power practices in IS development projects is what we call the 'guara...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85074614265
"One must remember towards tomorrow": A pragmatic study of the expression of memory in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez
Starting from temporality as the organizing principle of any communicative situation, the present study investigates the use of verbal paradigms in Spanish when expressing memory and forgetfulness in a fictional speech act, such as poetry. Every text, including poetic, is a pragmatic unit of interaction in which an enu...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84947869964
"Or so the government would have you believe": Uses of "you" in Guardian editorials
Although second person pronouns are relatively unusual in formal written genres, they are frequent in the editorials of some newspapers. This has been associated with ongoing trends towards a more informal style of public discourse, and with the construction of more equal relationships between writers and readers, whic...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84903625009
"Othering" agricultural biotechnology: Slovenian media representation of agricultural biotechnology
While studies on media representations of agricultural biotechnology mostly analyse media texts, this work is intended to fill a research gap with an analysis of journalistic interpretations of media representations. The purpose of this project was to determine how news media represent agricultural biotechnology and ho...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing", "Representation Learning" ]
[ 71, 72, 12 ]
SCOPUS_ID:69849132088
"Our England": Discourses of "race" and class in party election leaflets
This article examines two election leaflets distributed in Bradford, UK as part of the May 2006 local election campaigns of the Labour Party and the British National Party. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, the article shows that prejudicial ethnicist discourse is not solely the purview of marginal far-right poli...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:60949214976
"Paleo-Siberian": Editorial note
In the following AREA SURVEY, complementing LANGUAGE PROFILES and FAMILY PORTRAITS as occasional features in Linguistic Typology, the focus is on languages which have often been dealt with collectively as forming the "Paleo-Siberian" or "Paleo-Asiatic" group. This first Area Survey takes the form of a set of reviews of...
[ "Typology", "Syntactic Text Processing", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 45, 15, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:79955900604
"Paraphrase? - Oh, It entails something new!": A corpus-based study of learner talk on moodle
This study relates corpus-driven discourse analysis to the concept of collaborative knowledge construction. The fundamental assumption underlying this work is that knowledge is understood from a social epistemological perspective, and that incremental knowledge about an object of the discourse corresponds to continual ...
[ "Paraphrasing", "Text Generation" ]
[ 32, 47 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85063086304
"Paronyms - Dynamic in Contrast". A cognitively-oriented, multifunctional, dynamic reference book
This paper shows the extent to which the Paronym Dictionary project has made use of corpus-linguistic and cognitive-semantic approaches in the development of a new online lexicographic resource. The successful combination of lexicological and lexicographic aspects has narrowed the gap between linguistic theory and edit...
[ "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP", "Linguistic Theories" ]
[ 48, 57 ]
SCOPUS_ID:26844437130
"People say it's a little uncomfortable": Prenatal genetic counselors' use of constructed dialogue to reference procedural pain
Prenatal genetic counseling involves an exchange of information between counselors and clients, including verbal descriptions of the potential pain of invasive prenatal diagnosis procedures such as amniocentesis. This paper describes the use of one linguistic feature in one context. It considers how two counselors desc...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Natural Language Interfaces", "Semantic Text Processing", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 71, 11, 72, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85042781876
"Petersburg text" in a Clip "v Pitere - Pit'!", or Urbi et orbi by Sergey Shnurov
The article inscribes the song "In Petersburg - to drink!" in the traditionally understood "Petersburg text". The author works not only with poetry (verbal) material, but with the motives and images of the clip, embedding it in the cultural paradigm, revealing new meanings compared to traditional. Understanding of quot...
[ "Visual Data in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 20, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:34248880793
"Phonemia" a phoneme transcription system for speech synthesis in Modern Greek
This work gives a general presentation and classification of the various rules for text-to-phoneme transcription in Modern Greek. It is the outcome of a detailed study of Modern Greek based on more than 5000 words taken from everyday texts. We believe that this study is reasonably exhaustive, and that the rules formula...
[ "Programming Languages in NLP", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 55, 70, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84937597330
"Picture the scene⋯" visually summarising social media events
Due to the advent of social media and web 2.0, we are faced with a deluge of information; recently, research efforts have focused on filtering out noisy, irrelevant information items from social media streams and in particular have attempted to automatically identify and summarise events. However, due to the heterogene...
[ "Visual Data in NLP", "Information Extraction & Text Mining", "Summarization", "Text Generation", "Multimodality" ]
[ 20, 3, 30, 47, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84903478120
"Playing With Fire" in a Pre-Election Period: Newspaper Coverage of 2007 Wildfires in Greece
Newspaper coverage of 2007 wildfires in Greece was examined within a pre-election period. Interpretative repertoires are presented that were employed by two newspapers, each aligned to one of the two leading parliamentary parties at that time. Media discourse was framed within the emergency character of the fire suppre...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Explainability & Interpretability in NLP", "Semantic Text Processing", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 71, 81, 72, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84874975617
"Please don't be Turk, be Greek, be Armenian": Agency and deixis across virtualized Turkish imagined community
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of a Twitter discussion between Turkish nationalists and liberals that revolves around the assassination of Hrant Dink, a journalist who is a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent. Within the exchange, both sides attempt to establish, contest, and challenge definitions ...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84875550038
"Pluto Has Been a Planet My Whole Life!" Emotions, Attitudes, and Conceptual Change in Elementary Students' Learning about Pluto's Reclassification
Learning about certain scientific topics has potential to spark strong emotions among students. We investigated whether emotions predicted students' attitudes after engaging in independent rereading and/or rereading plus discussion about Pluto's reclassification. Fifth and sixth grade students read a refutation text on...
[ "Text Classification", "Sentiment Analysis", "Emotion Analysis", "Information Retrieval", "Information Extraction & Text Mining" ]
[ 36, 78, 61, 24, 3 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84901444317
"Potential significate" and "prototype": Two answers to an analogous problem?
The Psychomechanics of language (PL) and Cognitive Linguistics both deal with the relationship between language and mind. This paper compares several aspects of PL (in particular the notions of potential significate and subduction) and of Rosch's Prototype Theory (PT) in regard to lexicon and categorization. The respec...
[ "Cognitive Modeling", "Linguistics & Cognitive NLP" ]
[ 2, 48 ]
SCOPUS_ID:17444394430
"Preciser what we are": Emily Dickinson's poems in translation. A study in literary pragmatics
This article argues for an analysis of poetry in translation taking into account phonology, syntax and semantics, and pragmatics. Some poems by Emily Dickinson in three Spanish translations have been analysed in order to show how rhythm and rhyme, grammatical indeterminacy and difficulties in interpretation have been d...
[ "Machine Translation", "Semantic Text Processing", "Syntactic Text Processing", "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Text Generation", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 51, 72, 15, 71, 47, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:27544432850
"Qualitative" methods of social research in France: Reconstructing the actor, deconstructing the subject
This contribution gives an overview of the numerous tendencies of open non-standardised social research in France. For various reasons, the label "qualitative" seems to be less distinctive than in the Anglo-Saxon world and Germany. While the interpretive-hermeneutic (verstehend) approaches have recently come to play a ...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Explainability & Interpretability in NLP", "Semantic Text Processing", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 71, 81, 72, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85136299631
"Querido compadre; no podrá Ud. imajinarse el gram placer que tuvimos al recibir su cariñoza cartita". Pronoun and noun forms of address in private letters from the Saltpeter Pampa
In this article we have described and analyzed the use of pronoun and noun forms of address in a corpus of private letters written in the Saltpeter Pampa at the beginning of the 20th century. Our analysis integrates different theoretical models that explain the use and variation of address forms according to linguistic...
[ "Ethical NLP", "Responsible & Trustworthy NLP" ]
[ 17, 4 ]
SCOPUS_ID:7044249317
"Questions" in argument sequences in Japanese
The present study reports on the use of a linguistic category "interrogative," which has been traditionally associated with the act of questioning, and its use in argument talk in Japanese. Based on the observation that interrogative utterances in argument data are regularly followed by non-answers, it is argued that i...
[ "Argument Mining", "Reasoning" ]
[ 60, 8 ]
SCOPUS_ID:85027957866
"Quick-chatting", "smart dogs", and how to "say without saying": Small talk and pragmatic learning in the community
In this paper we focus on the perspectives and practical needs of a group of adult immigrants from language backgrounds other than English as they encounter the pragmatic demands of communicating in the workplace and in the community. Drawing on a subset of data from a large-scale longitudinal study of recent adult imm...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00741v1
"Read My Lips": Using Automatic Text Analysis to Classify Politicians by Party and Ideology
The increasing digitization of political speech has opened the door to studying a new dimension of political behavior using text analysis. This work investigates the value of word-level statistical data from the US Congressional Record--which contains the full text of all speeches made in the US Congress--for studying ...
[ "Text Classification", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality", "Information Retrieval", "Information Extraction & Text Mining" ]
[ 36, 70, 74, 24, 3 ]
SCOPUS_ID:60149094040
"Reciprocity": An NSM approach to linguistic typology and social universals
This paper develops a semantic approach to the study of "reciprocity" - an area increasingly seen as central to linguistic typology. "Reciprocal" and "reflexive-reciprocal" constructions from five languages - English, Russian, Polish, French and Japanese - are analyzed in considerable detail. The different, though inte...
[ "Typology", "Syntactic Text Processing", "Multilinguality" ]
[ 45, 15, 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:80051902257
"Reported speech" and the relationship between linguistics and pragmatics
The article points out epistemological questions arising when one attempts to articulate the Bakhtinian conception of reported speech within the scholarly disciplines dealing with language. It focuses on the aspects that question the neo-positivist formulation of the relationship between semantics and pragmatics.
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 71, 72, 70, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84876324858
"Republika Srpska will have a referendum": the rhetorical politics of Milorad Dodik
The theory and practice of referenda played an important role in the break-up of Yugoslavia, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), where two divisive referenda preceded the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. After the failure of constitutional reforms in April 2006, Milorad Dodik, then Republika Srpska's prime minister, sugge...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84903616077
"School" text of the XIX century: A.P. Chekhov
The article deals with the peculiarities of depiction of "school" in the creative work of the most outstanding author of Russian literature of the end of XIX century - A.P. Chekhov. It is shown that A.P. Chekhov, as distinct from such authors of the XIX century, as N.G. Pomyalovsky, F.M. Dostoevsky, N.G. Gagarin-Mikhai...
[ "Visual Data in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 20, 74 ]
SCOPUS_ID:82455237263
"Schwedis he can't even say Swedish"-subverting and reproducing institutionalized norms for language use in multilingual peer groups
The present study explores how minority schoolchildren in multilingual peer group interactions act upon dominant educational and linguistic ideologies as they organize their everyday emerging peer culture. The data draw from ethnographies combined with detailed analysis (CA) of video recordings in two primary monolingu...
[ "Multilinguality" ]
[ 0 ]
SCOPUS_ID:51349167363
"Selbstbewusst" und "stolz". Das außenpolitische vokabular der berliner republik als fährte einer neuorientierung
The article sketches a newly developed analytical approach ("vocabulary analysis") inspired by philosophy of language. Without engaging in the debate as to whether Germany's foreign policy is best characterised either in terms of continuity or change, the article reconstructs the development of the German foreign polic...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing" ]
[ 71, 72 ]
SCOPUS_ID:42749088092
"She is just stupid"-Analyzing user-agent interactions in emotional game situations
A multiplayer dice game was realized which is played by two users and one embodied conversational agent. During the game, the players have to lie to each other to win the game and the longer the game commences the more probable it is that someone is lying, which creates highly emotional situations. We ran a number of e...
[ "Natural Language Interfaces", "Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents" ]
[ 11, 38 ]
SCOPUS_ID:84876449394
"She speaks as if she really were Czech": The construction of nationality/ethnicity in children's speech
In focus groups, ninth graders from ethnically and nationally diverse classrooms (Vietnamese, Ukrainian/Russian, Roma) discussed in-class relationships among the different groups. My analysis combines discursive methods of conversation analysis and interpretive repertoires (Wetherell) in order to understand the ways in...
[ "Discourse & Pragmatics", "Semantic Text Processing", "Speech & Audio in NLP", "Multimodality" ]
[ 71, 72, 70, 74 ]