Emojis are used frequently in social media. A widely assumed view is that emojis express
the emotional state of the user, which has led to research focusing on the expressiveness of …

Laughter is a valuable means for communicating and engaging in interaction since the
earliest months of life. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of work on how its use develops in …

Laughter is one of the most common non-verbal features; however, contrary to the previous
assumptions, it may also act as signals of bonding, affection, emotional regulation …

Studies on laughter in dialogue have proposed resolving what laughter is about by looking
at what laughter follows. This paper investigates the sequential relation between the …

This work explores laughter within a corpus of three-party, task-based dialogs with native
and non-native speakers of English, each consisting of two players and a facilitator, in …

Laughter is a social vocalization universal across cultures and languages. It is ubiquitous in
our dialogues and able to serve a wide range of functions. Laughter has been studied from …

With laughter research seeing a development in recent years, there is also an increased
need in materials having laughter annotations. We examine in this study how one can …

This paper presents an exploratory scheme, which aims at investigating perceptual features
that characterise laughables (the arguments laughter is related to) in dialogue context. We …

We investigate whether laughter can be object of clarification requests and what these
clarification requests might be about. Building on previous work on the meaning of laughter …

In the current work a brief overview of some studies conducted on laughter taking a
multidisciplinary perspective will be presented. The integration of analyses of corpus data …