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AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Coverbal gesture provides a channel for the visual expression of ideas. While some gestural emblems have culturally predefined forms (e.g., "thumbs up"), the relationshi...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper explores the relationship between discourse structure and coverbal gesture. Using the idea of gestural cohesion, we show that coherent topic segments are characterized ...
GW
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Why an iconic gesture takes its particular form is a largely open question, given the variations one finds across both situations and speakers. We present results of an e...
IVA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Expressing spatial information with iconic gestures is abundant in human communication and requires to transform a referent representation into resembling gestural form. This task ...
ACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
1994
It is claimed that a variety of facts concerning ellipsis, event reference, and interclausal coherence can be explained by two features of the linguistic form in question: (1) whe...