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Showing 1 to 20 of 485 for “"Dialogues"”.
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Critical Dialogues and Reflections
… critical theories. In the first part, I present dialogues and reflections on Foucault’s Power/Knowledge and Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action. In the second part, I advance the conversation on Habermas’s distinction between communicative and strategic actions, leveraging Hegel’s early …
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Deception detection in dialogues
… detects deception reliably in natural-language dialogues. I formally define the problem of deception detection and identify several domains where it is useful. I introduce and evaluate new psycholinguistic features of deception in written dialogues for two datasets. My results shed light on the …
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Response Generation in Longitudinal Dialogues
Longitudinal Dialogues (LD) are the most challenging type of conversations for human-machine dialogue systems. LDs include the recollections of events, personal thoughts, and emotions specific to each individual in a sparse sequence of dialogue sessions. Dialogue systems designed for LDs should …
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Identifying power relationships in dialogues
Understanding power relationships is an important step towards building computers that can understand human social relationships. Power relationships can arise due to dierences in the roles of the speakers, as between bosses and employees. Power can also affect the manner of communication between …
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Dialogues of persuasion: the Reformation dialogues printed on the Continent during the reign of Henry VIII
This thesis examines how English Reformation-dialogues printed on the Continent during the reign of Henry VIII used the persuasive techniques of the dialogue-form to act as advocates for Reform. All English Reformation-dialogues printed on the continent during the reign of Henry VIII employ the …
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Amerikan dreams: Dialogues with white supremacists
The following is an ethnographic study of white supremacy. Using a cultural studies approach, I focus on ideology and how members of the openly white supremacist Army of Israel (AOI) practically accomplish aspects of their ideology on a daily basis. Further, I juxtapose the articulations of white …
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TOPIC CONTINUITY FOR DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUES
… models for written discourse and oral dialogues, two forms of multi-sentential texts.
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An Edition of Three Tudor Dialogues
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801862.pdf: 5501286 bytes, checksum: d87eb01dc5653da204b541d1b4251ca8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Mixed-initiative man-computer instructional dialogues.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
… on this topic has focused mostly on the Greek dialogues. When the Latin material received attention, it was read in terms of its appropriation of and deviation from classical models. More recent scholarship has acted as a corrective to this model, and one key question that has emerged is …
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Feedback Dialogues in Elementary Mathematics: An Exploratory Study
… how a teacher and student co-construct feedback dialogues in order to improve student learning in mathematics. The purpose of this study was to look deeper at how feedback, with regard to specific mathematical tasks, was co-constructed with students. The data included four formative assessments …
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Characterization of emotional speech in human-computer dialogues
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Dialogues on Classification About Life: A Classroom Teacher's Dilemma
This study focuses on children's dialogues about their beliefs about what is living, what is a plant, and what is an animal and why. How these ideas were influenced by their peers and the investigator's intervention or lack of it are likewise addressed in the dissertation.
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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
… types of divinities predominate in Plato’s later dialogues, the traditional and cosmic gods. This thesis focuses on the traditional gods and inquires into their cosmological status and function in the Timaeus and the Critias as well as the ethical value of civic religion in the Laws. In the first …
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Incarnation, Interpretation and Quotation: Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues and Confessions
… language. I argue that in the Cassiciacum dialogues and Confessions, quotation becomes Augustine’s laboratory for addressing this problem. I see studying Augustine’s use of quotation as a method that allows us to be attentive to his concerns as both a theologian and a writer. As a result, I …
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Adaptive dialogues--a university's response to complex environmental problems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Parsing meta-communicational statements in dialogues: a computational model
Prevalent in dialogues are communications about the activity of talking itself. Examination of dyadic conversations readily shows the ubiquity of statements such as "Okay," "Well," "You know," indicating that in natural, spontaneous talk people are often concerned with the process of talking as …
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Factors promoting multicultural dialogues in clinical supervision: A dyadic study
… triad is imperative. Engagement in multicultural dialogues has been linked with myriad positive outcomes, yet supervisors sparsely initiate them. The researcher of this study explored what factors were associated with attention to multicultural variables in supervision. A total of 48 participants, …
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Doubting Thomas: A Study of Thomas Hobbes's Post-Restoration Dialogues
… Hobbes seems to express doubt in his dialogues that his science as outlined in Leviathan and elsewhere is a realistic solution to the problems of the commonwealth. His knowledge of the English Civil War and the peace that followed may have been instrumental in reorienting Hobbes …
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