On the Role of Visuals in Multimodal Answers to Medical Questions [PDF]
, 2007 This paper describes two experiments carried out in order to investigate the role of visuals in multimodal answer presentations for a medical question answering system.
Bosma, Wauter +5 more
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Pro-active Meeting Assistants: Attention Please! [PDF]
, 2009 This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find
Anton Nijholt +16 more
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Follow-up question handling in the IMIX and Ritel systems: A comparative study [PDF]
, 2009 One of the basic topics of question answering (QA) dialogue systems is how follow-up questions should be interpreted by a QA system. In this paper, we shall discuss our experience with the IMIX and Ritel systems, for both of which a follow-up question ...
A. Max +6 more
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Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded language understanding: disambiguating a sentence given a visual scene which
Barbu, Andrei +4 more
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Integrating systemic functional and cognitive approaches to multimodal discourse analysis
Ilha do Desterro, 2013 This study explores the complementarities between systemic functional and cognitive metaphorical approaches to multimodal discourse analysis. Their common concern with the construal of human experience and their shared theoretical foundation of ...
Dezheng Feng, Elaine Espindola
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Performing Parisian. Gender Performances, Elite Discourse and Multimodality on Instagram
ILCEA, 2023 This paper leans on the thematic dimensions of gender, tourism and multimodality to explore how Instagram users construct Parisian narratives at the Café de Flore geotag.
Erin McInerney
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Multimodal Exemplification: The Expansion of Meaning in Electronic Dictionaries
Lexikos, 2017 This article investigates electronic dictionaries under the framework of Systemic-Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) and argues for improving their exemplification multimodally.
Xiqin Liu
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Multimodality in Online Political Discourse: Internet Memes about Scottish Independence
Научный диалог, 2019 The article is dedicated to the mediation of the possible independence of Scotland in social networks. A multimodal analysis of thematic Internet memes 2014-2016 is carried out as examples of online political discourse.
O. A. Blinova
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Learning Multimodality through Genre-Based Multimodal Texts Analysis: Listening to Students’ Voices
Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning, 2020 Recently, multimodality has attracted the attention of researchers, notably in the educational milieu. However, only a few studies reported on the way students perceived the use of Genre-Based Multimodal Texts Analysis (GBMTA) for teaching multimodality.
Fuad Abdullah +2 more
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Words, Pictures, and Arguments: A Relevance-Theoretic Synthesis
Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2023 Whether visual representation can function in arguments is a controversial issue. Those who claim they cannot, claim that only propositions may function thus and that as visuals cannot represent propositions, they cannot function in arguments.
Gerald Delahunty
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