17 September: DCLRS -- Laszlo Hunyadi, Friday, September 21, 16:00 (TCD Lloyd
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Friday of this week (September 21, 2018), at 16:00, in room LB08 of the
Lloyd Institute (TCD), Prof. Laszlo Hunyadi will speak.
Title:
Discovering hidden patterns of multimodal behaviour in dialogues of
the HuComTech corpus
Abstract:
The purpose of the construction and analysis of the HuComTech
Hungarian multimodal corpus is to identify general and individual
patterns of behaviour under specific pragmatic conditions. The main
challenges include that events constituting a pattern may be optional
and their sequence in patterns may not follow strict adjacency. The
talk will give an introduction to the corpus, demonstrate how these
challenges are met using the discovery methodology offered by Theme
(Magnusson 2000), and present examples of complex patterns identified
in the corpus.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Laszlo Hunyadi has a long history with University of
Debrecen, Department of General and Applied Linguistics, where he has
served as department head. He has a background in theoretical
linguistics (his PhD addressed "The Expression of Linguistic Polarity
in Hungarian"). He founded the HuComTech Cognitive Lab, and has
collaborated multidisciplinary projects that span digital humanities,
linguistics, engineering and cognitive psychology. One of his latest
projects reflects this latter interest, strongly associated with
humanities computing: the study of multimodal human behavior as
applied to human-human and human-machine interaction. One of the
results of this research is the large HuComTech corpus, that, being a
highly detailed and extensively annotated database, is open to access
for scientific research.
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this year by the Trinity Centre for Computing and Language Studies, is
a cooperation among Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University,
University College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology, a
long standing collaboration which overlaps with the SFI CNGL/ADAPT
centres.
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