Emotive speech is a social act in which a speaker displays emotional signals with a specific
intention; in the case of third-party complaints, this intention is to elicit empathy in the …

Understanding of speakers' attitude is essential for establishing successful human
interaction. In this paper we analyse attitude manifestations in video blogs. We describe the …

This paper investigates the intonation of other-initiation of repair in Standard Vietnamese
and provides an analysis of its interaction with lexical tone at the word level. Results from …

Very little previous research has addressed the prosodic characteristics of third party
complaints. This paper discusses an utterance and word level intonational analysis of this …

According to current social media statistics, the number of YouTube users, including
influencers, has doubled worldwide since 2017 (Gandola, 2022). During the period of our …

We report the set-up and results of an experiment designed to verify to what extent attitudes
can be identified and labelled by using an ad hoc annotation scheme. Respondents were …

Attitudinal information in a spoken utterance can be lexically encoded; it can also be
conveyed by intonation, including modification of voice quality. This study aims to investigate …

This paper reports a study of automatic attitude recognition from a collection of over 500
segments of our video blog data. We annotated and analysed 3 different attitudinal states of …

Attitudes or social affects are strongly implied in interaction processing, and specifically to
socio-cultural aspects of language. In face-to-face interaction, social affects are expressed …

Many of our social interactions prompt us to detect emotional signals produced by others,
which are designed to project ourselves into their feelings and understand their affective …