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Free Download Patricia Potter-Efron, "Lewy Body Dialogue: A Couple’s Conversations as they Encounter Lewy Body Dementia"
English | ISBN: 1098309510 | 2020 | 196 pages | EPUB | 663 KB
Pat and Ron Potter-Efron had been married for 54 years when Pat received the diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia in 2018. Both were recently retired mental health counselors who had been co-owners of a private clinic in Eau Claire, WI. They were also co-authors of several popular books, including the best sellers Letting Go of Shame and Letting Go of Anger. They soon began facing the reality of how Lewy Body Dementia was affecting their lives. Most importantly, they searched for a way to continue to contribute meaningfully to society while living as complete and satisfying lives as possible. That is when they decided to write a journal of their experiences, but a journal different than any they had encountered as they reviewed the Lewy Body literature. Pat and Ron began to write a series of conversations. Ron would initiate a relevant topic (hallucinations; teamwork; mortality, etc.) and then Pat would add her comments. Fortunately, Pat has retained her ability to clearly describe her thoughts and feelings even as some of her abilities have diminished. Pat does not always agree with Ron’s observations, of course. The perspectives of care receiver inevitably differ from those of care giver.

Free Download Dariusz Galasinski, "Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis: A Dialogue on Language and Identity"
English | 2001 | pages: 203 | ISBN: 0761963839 | PDF | 1,1 mb
This novel and important book brings together insights from cultural studies and critical discourse analysis to examine the fruitful links between the two. Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis shows that critical discourse analysis is able to provide the analytic context, skills and tools by which we can study how language constructs, constitutes and shapes the social world and demonstrates in detail how the methodological approach of critical discourse analysis can enhance cultural studies. In a richly argued discussion, the authors show how marrying the methodology of critical discourse analysis with cultural studies enlarges our understanding of gender and ethnicity.

Free Download Dialogue With the Unconscious:
Exploring the Landscape of the Soul and Its Contradictions With Voice Dialogue
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0DRNPNNQ6 | 89 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB

Free Download Spoken Dialogue Technology: Toward the Conversational User Interface By Michael F. McTear (auth.)
2004 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 1852336722 | PDF | 3 MB
Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems. The book enables students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments and languages, including the CSLU toolkit, VoiceXML, SALT, and XHTML+ voice. This practical orientation is usually available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits. The latest research in spoken dialogue systems is presented along with extensive coverage of the most relevant theoretical issues and a critical evaluation of current research prototypes. A dedicated web site containing supplementary materials, code, links to resources will enable readers to develop and test their own systems (). Previously such materials have been difficult to track down, available only on a range of disparate web sites and this web site provides a unique and useful reference source which will prove invaluable.

Free Download Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue
by Anna Angelopoulos, Agnès Jacob
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032674172 | 272 Pages | True ePUB | 1.83 MB

Free Download Affective Dialogue Systems: Tutorial and Research Workshop, ADS 2004, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 14-16, 2004. Proceedings By Anton Batliner, Christian Hacker, Stefan Steidl, Elmar Nöth, Jürgen Haas (auth.), Elisabeth André, Laila Dybkjær, Wolfgang Minker, Paul Heisterkamp (eds.)
2004 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 3540221433 | PDF | 5 MB
Human conversational partners are able, at least to a certain extent, to detect the speaker’s or listener’s emotional state and may attempt to respond to it accordingly. When instead one of the interlocutors is a computer a number of questions arise, such as the following: To what extent are dialogue systems able to simulate such behaviors? Can we learn the mechanisms of emotional be- viors from observing and analyzing the behavior of human speakers? How can emotionsbeautomaticallyrecognizedfromauser’smimics,gesturesandspeech? What possibilities does a dialogue system have to express emotions itself? And, very importantly, would emotional system behavior be desirable at all? Given the state of ongoing research into incorporating emotions in dialogue systems we found it timely to organize a Tutorial and Research Workshop on A?ectiveDialogueSystems(ADS2004)atKlosterIrseein GermanyduringJune 14-16, 2004. After two successful ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops on Multimodal Dialogue Systems at the same location in 1999 and 2002, we felt that a workshop focusing on the role of a?ect in dialogue would be a valuable continuation of the workshop series. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the workshop attracted submissions from researchers with very di?erent backgrounds and from many di?erent research areas, working on, for example, dialogue processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, embodied conversational agents, computer graphics, animation, user modelling, tutoring systems, cognitive systems, and human-computer inter- tion.

Free Download Text, Speech and Dialogue: 8th International Conference, TSD 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 12-15, 2005. Proceedings By Frederick Jelinek (auth.), Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, Tomáš Pavelka (eds.)
2005 | 460 Pages | ISBN: 3540287892 | PDF | 5 MB
TheInternationalConferenceTSD 2005,the8theventin theseriesonText,Speech,and Dialogue, which originated in 1998, presented state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the ?eld of natural language processing. It declared its intent to be an interdisciplinary forum, intertwining research in speech and language processing with its applications in everyday practice. We feel that the mixture of different approaches and applications offered a great opportunity to get acquainted with the current act- ities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of researchers from developing countries too. The ?nancial support of the ISCA (Inter- tional Speech Communication Association) enabled the wide attendance of researchers from all active regions of the world. Thisyear’sconferencewaspartiallyorientedtowardsmulti-modalhuman-computer interaction (HCI), which can be seen as the most attractive topic of HCI at the present time. In this way, we are involved in a rich complex of communicative activity, facial expressions, hand gestures, direction of gaze, to name but the most obvious ones. The interpretationof each user utterancedependson the context,prosody,facial expressions (e. g. brows raised, brows and gaze both raised) and gestures. Hearers have to adapt to the speaker (e. g. maintainingthe theme of the conversation,smiling etc. ). Research into the interaction of these channels is however limited, often focusing on the interaction between a pair of channels. Six signi?cant scienti?c results achieved in this area in the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and the Czech Republic were presented by keynote speakers in special plenary sessions. Further, approx.

Free Download Michelle Pace, Tobias Schumacher, "Conceptualizing Cultural and Social Dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: A European Perspective"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0415371295 | EPUB | pages: 164 | 0.4 mb
Previously published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics, this collection critically analyzes the dynamics and complexities of the wider Euro-Mediterranean area on the basis of individual theory-informed designs and conceptual frameworks.

Free Download Ellen Breitholtz, "Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue The Use of Common Sense Reasoning in Conversation"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9004436782 | PDF | pages: 171 | 2.2 mb
In this volume, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. Emphasising the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context.

Free Download Creating Democracy: Arendt and Bakhtin in Dialogue
by Charles Hersch
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032829281 | 214 Pages | True PDF | 4.9 MB