Large language models like GPT-3 are increasingly becoming part of human
communication. Through writing suggestions, grammatical assistance, and machine …

Laughter is a social behavior that conveys a variety of emotional states and is also intricately
intertwined with linguistic communication. As people increasingly engage with voice …

When interlocutors repeatedly describe referents to each other, they rapidly converge on
referring expressions which become increasingly systematized and abstract as the …

Science communication has gained high importance in the current knowledge and risk
society. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of qualitative studies on how non-experts and …

This special issue addresses how aspects of the communicative situation influence how
influential persuasive utterances (or other strategies of influence) are in their contexts of use …

Gaze plays a central role in regulating turn-taking, but it is currently unclear whether the turn-
taking signals of eye gaze are static and fixed, or whether they can be negotiated by …

Human-robot interaction is becoming increasingly popular, with social robots like Furhat
playing key roles in enhancing communication through both verbal and non-verbal cues …

When interlocutors repeatedly describe referents to each other, they rapidly converge on
referring expressions which become increasingly systematized and abstract as the …

This thesis paves the way for including laughter in spoken dialogue systems in a domain-
general and linguistically valid way using computational linguistics tools and methods. The …

This paper explores how laughter can be added into a negotiative dialogue with a Furhat,
the socially interactive agent (SIA). We present a proof-of-concept method of manipulating …