Selected Publications

Books:

Alm, C. O. (2009) Affect in Text and Speech. VDM Verlag: Saarbrücken.

As technology and human-computer interaction advance, there is an increased interest in affective computing. One of the current challenges in computational speech and text processing is addressing affective and expressive meaning, an area that has received fairly sparse attention in linguistics. Linguistic investigation in this area is motivated both by the need for scientific study of subjective language phenomena, and by useful applications such as expressive text-to-speech synthesis. This work makes contributions to the study of affect and language, by describing a novel data resource, outlining models and challenges for exploring affect in language, applying computational methods toward this problem with included empirical results, and suggesting paths for further research. The book should be particularly valuable for readers interested in language and affect, socioemotive aspects of language, subjective language phenomena, and computational semantics.

Alm, C. O. (2009, fall). Window to Swedish and Scandinavia [title translated from Swedish].  Web publication.

Datasets/corpora:
Alm, C. O. & Eaton, M. (projected 2009, Dec.). Educational Swedish and Scandinavian Multimedia Materials Collection.
Alm, C. O. (projected 2010). Dataset of Swedish Language Learning and Teaching.
Alm, C. O. (2008). Affect Dataset. GNU General Public License.
Loeff, N, Alm, C. O., & Forsyth, D. (2006). Image Sense Discrimination Dataset.

Journal articles:
Stenport, A. W., & Alm, C. O. (forthcoming, 2009). Corporations, crime, and gender construction in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: exploring twenty-first century neoliberalism in Swedish culture. Accepted for publication in Scandinavian Studies Journal 81.1.
Alm, C. O. (2003). English in the Ecuadorian commercial context. World Englishes, 22(2), 143-158.

Book chapter:
Forsyth, D. A., Berg, T., Alm, C. O., Farhadi, A., Hockenmaier, J., Loeff, N., & Wang, G. (2009, in press). Words and pictures: categories, modifiers, depiction, and iconography. In S. J. Dickinson, A. Leonardis, A. Schiele, & M. J. Tarr (Eds.). Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives. (pp. 167-181). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Invited web articles:
Alm, C. O. (2009, May). Podcasting in Swedish teaching [title translated from Swedish]. Swedish Institute web portal.
Alm, C. O. (2009, May). Webvideo in Swedish teaching [title translated from Swedish]. Swedish Institute web portal.

Peer-reviewed articles in proceedings:
Alm, C. O., & Llorà, X. (2006, September). Evolving emotional prosody (pp. 1826-1829). Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP, Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Alm, C. O., Loeff, N., & Forsyth, D. (2006, July). Challenges for annotating images for sense disambiguation (pp. 1-4).  Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora, at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney.
Loeff, N., Alm, C. O., & Forsyth, D. (2006, July). Discriminating image senses by clustering with multimodal features (pp.  547-554). Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney.

Presentations 2008-2009

Recent presentations (2008-2009)

Alm, C. O. (2009, June). Is satisfaction important for second language learning? [Title translated from Swedish.] NORDAND: The 9th Conference on the Nordic Languages as Second Languages,
Helsingør, Denmark.

Alm, C. O. (2009, May). Instructional motivations behind (new) usages of class website features. Language Resource Center Spring Workshop, Cornell University.

Alm, C. O. (2009, April-May). The state and position of scholarship on second language learning
in Scandinavian Studies in North America. Presented at the 99th Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Madison, Wisconsin. 

Alm, C. O. (2009, March). Affect in text and speech. Presented in the Linguistics Colloquia series, Cornell University.

Alm, C. O. (2009, March). Learning attitudinal meaning: empirical lessons from the Swedish
language classroom. Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2009 Conference, Denver, Colorado. [Conference travel sponsored by the Cornell Institute for European Studies.]

Stenport, A. & Alm, C. O. (2008, December). Entrepreneurship and corporate identities in Scandinavian crime fiction: examples of a globalizing trend. Presented as part of the panel on Europe and Globalization: Narrating Challenges and Opportunities, MLA, San Francisco. [Representative: A. Stenport.]

Alm, C. O. (2008, November). Portfolio assessment for addressing individual learning needs of language learners. ACTFL's 2008 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, Orlando.

Ivanova, M. & Alm, C. O. (2008, August). Translating Mishima: Ingmar Bergman's Markisinnan de Sade (1989). 27th International Study Conference of the Association for Scandinavian Studies, Polen. [Representative: M. Ivanova.]

Hall, H. & Alm, C. O. (2008, July).  Exploring Cultural Diversity of Gender and Family through Scandinavian Children's and Youth Literature in Translation. Literacies for All Summer Institute, "Critical Reflections: Honoring and Nurturing the Whole Child," sponsored by the Whole Language Umbrella (WLU), Tucson. [Representative: H. Hall.]

Alm, C. O. (2008, April). Relocalizing text: Challenges when translating to native audiences. Fourth biannual conference of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA), University of Texas, El Paso.    

Ivanova, M. & Alm, C. O. (2008, March). Scandinavian mythology and worldscapes in Japanese shojo culture. 98th Annual Meeting of the Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

 
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