Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

This article provides an overview and evaluation of the uses—actual and potential—of
automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken dialogue systems (SDS), related …

" This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensible
reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech …

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to
the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the …

Voice-based conversational assistants are growing in popularity on ubiquitous mobile and
stationary devices. Cortana, as well as Google Home, Amazon Echo, and others, can …

As ubiquitous as the atmosphere, intelligent adaptive systems (IASs) surround us in our
daily lives. When designed well, these systems sense users and their environments so that …

Studies in Language and Social Interaction is a series which continues the tradition of
Studies in Discourse and Grammar, but with a new focus. It aims to provide a forum for …

Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

Scripted dialogues such as movie and TV subtitles constitute a widespread source of
training data for conversational NLP models. However, there are notable linguistic …

Following along how-to videos requires alternating focus between understanding
procedural video instructions and performing them. Examining how to support these …