Most NLP models today treat language as universal, even though socio-and psycholingustic
research shows that the communicated message is influenced by the characteristics of the …

Throughout a conversation, participants make choices that can orient the flow of the
interaction. Such choices are particularly salient in the consequential domain of crisis …

Recognizing speech acts (SA) is crucial for capturing meaning beyond what is said, making
communicative intentions particularly relevant to identify urgent messages. This paper …

Social robots have been shown to be effective educational tools. Rapport, or interpersonal
closeness, can lead to better human-robot interactions and positive learning outcomes. Prior …

Recognizing speech acts (SA) is crucial for capturing meaning beyond what is said, making
communicative intentions particularly relevant to identify urgent messages. This paper …

The intersection of psychology and computational linguistics is capable of providing novel
automated insight into the language of everyday cognition through analysis of micro-blogs …

We propose a novel way of the conversational recommendation where instead of asking
user questions to acquire her preferences, the recommender tracks her conversations with …

Conversations are central to many consequential settings. Understanding how
conversationalists navigate through them could unlock great improvements in domains like …

In this paper, we investigate whether the social roles of dialogue participants can be
recognized through the social actions performed by the participant in their interactions with …

This thesis takes a stylometric approach to the measurement of social power, particularly
hierarchical power in an organisational setting. Following the social constructionist view of …