Special issue of computer speech and language on “affective speech in real-life interactions”

In the modern linguistic literature, without taking into account new qualitative changes in contemporary syntactic theory, the theory of text science and speech activity, the view of the consideration of punctuation as a separate section of syntax still prevails. If the linguistic environment changes and the language has the ability to adapt to changes in real life, changes that are observed in a particular speech practice must first be seen as a new but standard, communicative, and pragmatic phenomenon (pauses, deviations). After all, speech and language are interrelated phenomena. Both are two other units of the system. From this point of view, changes made in the syntactic structure of speech should be recognized as consequences of non-verbal communication in non-oral (written) communication. Despite the recognition of the importance of many definitions and studies presented for punctuation, the generally recognized values of textbooks, the emergence of various additional clarifications, and changes relating to punctuation indicate the need to take into account the qualitative changes occurring in the practice of punctuation marks and punctuation-graphic means. In particular, the results of the survey among students clarify this opinion.

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Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on Computational Intelligence and Its Applications for Robotics

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics ◽

10.1142/s0219843617020017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (02) ◽

pp. 1702001 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Young-Jae Ryoo ◽

Takahiro Yamanoi

Keyword(s):

Computational Intelligence ◽

Fuzzy Controller ◽

Mathematical Reasoning ◽

Real Life ◽

Humanoid Robots ◽

Robotic System ◽

Human Beings ◽

Special Issue ◽

Life Problems ◽

Localization And Mapping

The special issue topics focus on the computational intelligence and its application for robotics. Its areas reach out comprehensive ranges; context-awareness software, omnidirectional walking and fuzzy controller of dynamic walking for humanoid robots, pet robots for treatment of ASD children, fuzzy logic control, enhanced simultaneous localization and mapping, fuzzy line tracking for mobile robots, and so on. Computational intelligence (CI) is a method of performing like humans. Generally computational intelligence means the ability of a computer to learn a specific task from data or experimental results. Meanwhile robotic system has many limits to behave like human beings. The robotic system might be too complex for mathematical reasoning, it might contain some uncertainties during the process, or the process might simply be stochastic in real life. Real-life problems cannot be translated into binary code for computers to process it. Computational intelligence might solve such problems.

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Special Issue on Biosignal-based Spoken COmmunication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security ◽

10.1109/tifs.2016.2626002 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 2891-2891

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Special Issue ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Speech And Language Processing

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Preface: From Pragmatics and Dialectics to Argument Studies

Studies in Logic Grammar and Rhetoric ◽

10.2478/slgr-2014-0014 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 7-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Katarzyna Budzynska ◽

Frans H. van Eemeren ◽

Marcin Koszowy

Keyword(s):

Natural Language ◽

Real Life ◽

Special Issue ◽

Research Questions

Abstract Pragmatics and dialectics are two disciplines which have been amongst the first and most important partners for argument studies in the exploration of the complex realm of communication. Treating argumentation as a construct consisting of premises and conclusion allows for investigating some interesting properties of the phenomenon of reasoning, but does not capture a variety of aspects related to the usage of natural language and dialogical context in which real-life argumentation is typically embedded. This special issue explores some of the fascinating research questions which emerge when we move beyond logic into the territory of the pragmatics and dialectics of argument.

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