1. Academic Qualifications

(Förteckning över akademisk utbildning och anställningar)

Degrees

• Associate Professor in Human-Machine Interaction (2013)
• Doctor of Philosophy in General Linguistics (2000)
• Master of Arts in Slavic Philology (1992)
• Master of Arts in Literary Theory (1992)

Employment

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University (affiliated) (Jan 1, 2014 - Sept 18, 2017)
• Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University (2010 – Jan 1, 2014)
• Assistant Professor, School of Business and Informatics, University of Borås, (June 1, 2007 – Jan 1, 2013)
• University Lecturer, Institute for Informatics and Business Computer Science, University of Borås, (August 1, 2006 – February 1, 2007)
• Research Associate, Institute for Creative Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (May 4, 2004 – June 2006)
• University Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (August 2003 – January 2004)
• Research Associate, Institute for Creative Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (November 1, 2001 – August 1, 2003)
• Post Doctorate, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara (August 2000 – August 2001)
• Researcher (forskarassistent), Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg (January 1, 2000 – May 30, 2000)
• Doctoral Student (doktorandtjänst), Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg (1995 – 1999)
• Lecturer, Center of South- and East-Asian Studies, University of Gothenburg (1994 – 1999)
• Research Assistant (forskningsassistent), Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg (1992 – 1995)

Selected Academic Awards and Fellowships

• Swedish Treasury Bank 2013, GDN2013
• Swedish Treasury Bank Fellow 2000-2001, Tibet and US
• STINT Fellow 2000-2001, USA

Languages

• Bulgarian (native)
• English (native)
• Swedish (fluent)
• Russian (good comprehension)

2. Research Activity

(Förteckning över vetenskaplig verksamhet)

Research activities focusing on five partly overlapping areas:

• Linguistic Theory: Semantics, notably cognitive semantics (Martinovski, 1992a, 1995c,e); semantics / pragmatics, in particular the analysis of style and linguistic feedback (Martinovski, 2000) and the analysis of meaning within cognitive grammars (Martinovski, 1995d). Pedagogical texts within this area include Martinovski 1997, 2000 and publications on WWW.
• Corpus Linguistics: Within the research program Semantics and Spoken Language and as part of a doctoral project developed together with Jens Allwood and Joakim Nivre various problems dealing with the empirical analysis of spoken language and coding as well as the analysis of various spoken language phenomena (Martinovski, 2000).
• Virtual Reality, Dialogue Systems, Emotion, and Cognition: Designed a linguistic corpus for computer science applications at the Institute for Creative Technology in cooperation with Dr. Traum. Developed a cognitive and dialogue model for interaction between multiple human and embodied virtual agents in multi-modal settings, including face-to-face and radio communication, spanning multiple conversations in support of an extended complex task. Modeling Theory of Mind reasoning and coping in cooperation with Dr. Stacy Marsella. Development of a cognitive-emotive model of empathy in Virtual human negotiation. Study of cross-cultural effects on virtual simulation of proxemic behavior in multi-party settings.
• Ethics of Communication: In cooperation with Amit Pinchevski, Zigmund Bauman, Jens Allwood, Mary Vogel and other scholars studied the relationship between ethics and languages from post-modern point of view, based on the concept of ‘ethics of otherness’ developed by philosophers such as Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas.
• Language and Law: Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies on the relationship between legal system, language, and culture as well as on discursive mechanisms for mitigation of guilt and management of doubt (Martinovski, 2000, 2003, 2006). Pedagogical works within this area include the development of course plan and compendium on Forensic Linguistics (Martinovski, 2001).
• Group Decision, Negotiation and Emotion: Modeling and analyzing emotion and cognition in individual, dyadic and group decision taking and negotiation, including dialogical, legal and intercultural aspects of it (Martinovski 2008, 2009, 2010). Operationalization of ideas on ethics of otherness and connectedness together with Melvin Shakun, Stern Business School, New York, USA and Amer Obeidi, Waterloo University, Canada

Research Projects and Fellowships

Participation internally and externally funded research projects, some of which involve international collaboration:

• Researcher associate, Tactical Language, Institute for Creative technology, University of Southern California (2006-2007)
• Researcher associate, Simulation of Intercultural Communication, Institute for Creative technology, University of Southern California (2005-2006)
• Research associate, Radio Communication via Radiobots, Institute for Creative technology, University of Southern California (2004-2006)
• Research associate, Embodied Agents for Multi-party Dialogue in Immersive Virtual Worlds, Institute for Creative technology, University of Southern California (2001-2007)
• STINT Post-doctoral Fellow, Multimodal Cross-linguistic Corpora on Courtroom Examinations, University of California at Santa Barbara (2000-2001)
• Fellow of The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, Ethics and Communication in Eastern and Western Philosophy, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, (2000)
• Researcher and project leader, Multimedia and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics, Sofia-Göteborg, Open Society Foundation (1999 – 2000)
• Researcher, Internet and Distance Education, University of Gothenburg (1996-1999)
• Researcher, Foreign Students Communication Skills, University of Gothenburg Fund (1995)
• Researcher, Psycholinguistic Aspects of Metaphor Interpretation, University of Gothenburg Fund (1993 – 1995)
• Researcher, Trust and Company Leadership, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (1993 – 1995)
• Researcher, Semantic and Pragmatic Variation of Coordinate Conjunctions in Swedish, English, Bulgarian and Russian. University of Gothenburg Fund (1990 – 1991)

3. Teaching Experience

(Pedagogisk verksamhet)

Undergraduate and graduate teaching in general linguistics at University of Gothenburg, Department of Linguistics, Center for South-Eastern Studies, and School of Economy, since 1993. Courses taught include the following:

General Linguistics and Informatics, Undergraduate Level

• Human information systems (2008- )
• Verification and quality assurance (2008- )
• Media communication (2007- )
• Information behavior (2007- )
• Intercultural communication and IT (2008- )
• Interaction design (2007- )
• Consequences of computerization and IT design (2007- )
• Supervision of BA theses (4) (2003)
• Discourse analysis (1996-2000)
• Semiotics (1995, 2007-)
• Intercultural communication (1992-2000, 2003)
• Language, thinking and communication (1992-2000, 2003)
• Structure and function of language: syntax and morphology (1996-1999)
• Linguistic theory (1996-2000)
• Morphology (1996-1999)
• Semantics (1992-1999, 2003)

General Linguistics and Informatics, Graduate Level

• Supervision of Master theses in Communication (2009- )
• Courses within Master Program of Communication (2007- )
• Discourse analysis (1998-2000)
• Corpus linguistics (1998-2000)
• Pragmatics and cognitive semantics (1996-2000, 2003)
• Cognitive semantics (1997, 2003)

Between 2001 and 2003 functioned as an instructor and supervisor of 5 graduate students within the MRE Natural Language Project, Corpus Collection and Coding.

Teaching experience also includes lecturing at other universities in Sweden and in Europe, such as Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg; IT University, Göteborg, Sweden; Verchelli University, Torino, Italy; Sofia University, Bulgaria.

Pedagogical Texts

Development of pedagogic texts for courses in general linguistics and computational linguistics cover the following areas:

• Manual for Coding of Modality and Empathy, Martinovski (2006)
• Manual for Coding of Radio Talk, Martinovski, Traum, and Rogue (2005)
• Manual for Coding of Military Speech, Martinovski (2002)
• Forensic Linguistics, Martinovski (2001)
• Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Martinovski & Grönqvist, (2000b)
• Kognitiv Semantik och Pragmatik, Martinovski (2000a)
• Intercultural Business Communication for Chinese MBA Students, Martinovski (1997, 1998)
• Kognitiv Semantik, Martinovski (1997)
• Semiotik, Martinovski & Dahlöff (1995)

Development of web-based courses on semantics, cognitive semantics, pragmatics, and intercultural communication (visit the page at the Wayback Machine).

4. Publications and Conference Presentations

(Förteckning över vetenskapliga arbeten)

Books

• Martinovski, B. (forthcoming) Court Talk. Springer: Amsterdam.
• Martinovsky, B. (2014) (ed.) Emotion in Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer: Amsterdam.
• Martinovski, B. (2013) (ed.) Proceedings in Group Decision and Negotiation. Stockholm University: Department of Computer and System Sciences. Sweden.  Download PDF
• Martinovski, B. (2000c) The Role of Repetitions and Reformulations in Court Proceedings – a Comparison of Sweden and Bulgaria. Gothenburg Monographs in Linguistics. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics.  Download PDF
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  Examination in court is a specific type of verbal activity, in which the interlocutors cooperatively HAVE to establish a correct version of a story. However, by definition, the cooperative aspect is only partially supported by the power structures in a trial. Starting with the description of the activity, the analysis aims to uncover the dynamic relationship between institution and practice, between legal structure and human interaction. By focusing on inherently dialogical features such as repetitions and reformulations and their relation to various other interactive features, e.g. feedback, communicative acts, modality, sentence type, overlap, and pauses, this thesis aims to demonstrate the mechanisms behind the realization of verbal defense strategies, the expression and projection of doubt, etc. and to formulate ideas and methods concerning the development of integrated qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis.

  The perspective is cross-cultural, finding similarities and differences in the realization of functions and structures. The data consist of audio-recorded trials in Sweden and video-recorded trials in Bulgaria; the legal systems in both cultures are officially considered inquisitorial and based on Roman law. Four major conclusions are:

  1. The activity factor and the associated pre-defined purposes and roles influence the use of repeat sequences and the interaction more profoundly than the language factor.

  2. Bulgarian court examinations exhibit greater power distance between the participants than do the Swedish examinations, although in both cultures the examinees behave defensively, independently of the combativeness of the examiners.

  3. Integration between qualitative and quantitative analysis is productive and complementary.

  4. The main purpose of a court examination is to find the truth but the actual practice of the courts in both Sweden and Bulgaria is to demonstrate and reach recordable consensus on the preferred interpretations of the truth.

  https://hdl.handle.net/2077/12973

Book Chapters

• Martinovski, B. (2022). Quantitative Measures for Recognition of Negotiation Style and Activity. In: Szapiro, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Collective Decisions: Theory, Algorithms and Decision Support Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 392. Springer, Cham.
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  Group Decision and Negotiation Support Systems need to provide support for different types of communication activities. The purpose of this study is to identify and test cross-linguistic measures for recognition of communication activities in order to provide support for various forms of group decision and negotiation support systems, including e-negotiation support systems. The study uses quantitative cross-activity and cross-linguistic analysis in order to test if complex linguistic measures, such as caution, liveliness, and stereotypicality, can be used to recognize spoken language negotiation activity and style. The data indicate that automated linguistic analysis is a useful tool for recognition of activity type in spontaneous speech and that the activity factor influences the interaction in a more profound way than the language factor or the national culture factor.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84997-9_5
• Shakun, M.F., Martinovski, B. (2021). Advances in Defining a Right Problem in Group Decision and Negotiation. In: Kilgour, D.M., Eden, C. (eds) Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer, Cham.
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  Not all group decision and negotiation agreements are right solutions. In order to take a right decision and find a right solution to a problem, one has to first of all define the right problem. This chapter presents the evolution of a dynamic problem – restructuring for definition of right problem/solution in group decision and negotiation and its manifestation in communication. It starts with a summary of the framework for Evolutionary Systems Design and the Connectedness Decision Paradigm Validation Test and then goes through seven ways in which communication, as a cognitive semiotic process, produces connectedness with the Other, namely, shift of attention, common ground, redefinition of communication, empathy, interactive alignment, theory-of-mind reasoning, and reciprocal adaptation.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49629-6_27
• Martinovski, B. (2021). Role of Emotion in Group Decision and Negotiation. In: Kilgour, D.M., Eden, C. (eds) Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer, Cham.
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  There has been a growing wave of interest in the role of emotion and emotions in human activity and ability, which resulted in special research attention to emotion as a factor in group-based structuring and framing of problem representation and solution. It involves multidisciplinary approaches and reaches beyond sociology and behavioral research. This chapter offers a state-of-the-art survey of recent developments, findings, and theoretical approaches to emotion in group decision and negotiation, as well as detailed examples of models and analysis. It explores the evolution of the concepts of cognition and emotion and its effect on group decision-making research, including argumentation theory and virtual reality design and ethics. Furthermore, it summarizes previous and recent findings on the effects of emotion and emotions on group decision and negotiation and then observes linguistic and discourse manifestation of emotions in e-negotiations and in face-to-face negotiations. A framework for analysis of emotional potential of utterances and power in joint communicative projects is introduced and applied, as an example, on authentic American-English plea bargain data. At the end, the chapter reaches beyond the limits of instrumental rationality and reflects on the place of emotion in value-based rationality models, ethics of otherness, and connectedness.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49629-6_5
• Martinovski, B. (2018). A Model of Culture-Based Communication. In: Faucher, C. (eds) Advances in Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 134. Springer, Cham.
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  Both humans and Virtual Agents interact in intercultural environments. Both humans and Virtual Agents need to behave appropriately according to environment. This paper proposes a dynamic modular model of culture-based communication, which reflects intercultural communication processes and can be used in the design of life-like training scenarios. Culture is defined as a semiotic process and a system, which builds upon Self and Other identities and which is sustained and modified through communication and cognitive-emotive mechanisms such as reciprocal adaptation, interactive alignment and appraisal. Communication is defined as an opportunity for meeting of Otherness. Since culture covers many different aspects of social life, people are practicing intercultural-communication on daily basis and Human-Virtual Agent interaction is seen as a form of intercultural communication.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67024-9_15
• Martinovski, B. (2010) Emotion in Negotiation. Handbook on Group Decision and Negotiation. M. Kilgour and C. Eden (eds.). Springer.
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  Contemporary research on negotiation and group decision support systems (see the chapter by Lewis, this volume) pays a special attention on emotion as a factor in restructuring and reframing of problem representation and solution (Barry, Group Decis Negotiation 17:97–105, 2008; Druckman and Olekalns, Group Decis Negotiation 17:1–11, 2008). It involves multi-disciplinary approaches and reaches beyond sociology and behavioral research (see the chapter by Kilgour and Hipel, this volume). The present paper offers a bird-eye view of recent developments as well as novel theoretical approaches to emotion in negotiation. It explores the evolution of the concept of cognition and its effect on group decision-making research. Furthermore, it observes how e-negotiation, Virtual Agent modeling, and Theory of Mind involve emotion (see the chapter by Sicara and Dai, this volume). It studies linguistic manifestation (see the chapter by Koeszegi and Vetschera, this volume) and evolution of emotions in terms of emotional potential and power in joint communicative projects. Finally, it relates Levinas’ (1989, The Other in Proust. In: Levinas Reader (trans. S. Hand). Basil Blackwell, Oxford, pp 160–165) ethics of otherness and Shakun’s concept of connectedness in negotiation (see the chapter by Shakun, this volume) to Buber’s (1995, Det Mellanmänskliga. Dualis Förlag AB, Falun (German original title Elemente des Swischenmenschlichen, Verlag Lambert Scneider, Heidelberg, 1954)) intuition about the limitations of sociology.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9097-3_5
• Martinovsky, B. (2007). Empathy and theory of mind and body in evolution. In Ahlsén, E. et al. (eds) Communication - Action - Meaning. A Festschrift to Jens Allwood. University of Gothenburg, Department of Linguistics, pp. 343-361.  Download PDF
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  Three mutually exclusive theoretical explanations have been proposed to describe how Theory of Mind processes work, namely by imitation, by simulation or by representation. This paper claims that all three theories are correct and that the realization of empathy in discourse is a good source of evidence for that. Instead of being three exclusive theories these are three compatible mechanisms, which reflect different stages of cognitive evolution. Furthermore, the somatic and emotive bias of cognition, the complexity of Theory of Mind processes and the fundamental role empathy plays in interaction altogether point to a new metaphor of communication, namely communication as a caress.

Encyclopedia Articles

• Martinovski, B. (2015). Emotion in Interactive Technology-Mediated Decision Taking and Negotiation. In M. Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (pp. 3745-3753). IGI Global.
• Martinovski, B. (2009) Mitigation. The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. L. Cummings (ed.) Routledge.

Journals – Guest Editor

• Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol 18, No. 3, May 2009.

Journal Articles

• Martinovski, B. (2014) The Ethical Turn: Communication as a Manifestation of the Ethical. Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, no 2, pp 119-133.  Download PDF
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  This paper calls for an ethical turn in communication. It offers a re-evaluation of Weaver’s metaphor on communication as exchanges of information and develops Buber’s and Peters’ ideas on communication as manifestation of the ethical, where the ethical is described as openness to otherness and communication is viewed as a tension between reproduction of Self and reconciliation with alterity. It argues that mutuality is not a necessary condition for the ethical because it involves intimacy that can only be discrete, and that end of theodicy is not the end of the ethical because the ethical is a space of profound intimacy, beyond preachment. Extreme cases of annihilation of otherness such as genocides in all their stages and variations, can’t be described as rational in some cases than others and have deeper roots than modernity. The ethical turn within socio-political conflicts and genocidal process meets challenges such as the patriarchal order, implantations and involvement of the third, dehumanization, isolation for larger contexts, traumatic disorders, and states of denial. However, the potential of communication as reconciliation is enhanced by insights in intercultural communication, nurturing of hybrid cultures, and distance taking techniques such as time distance, attention/topic shift, emotions such as feelings of awe and art.

  https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2014.21012
• Martinovski, B. (2013) Interactive Alignment or Complex Reasoning: Reciprocal Adaptation and Framing in Group Decision and Negotiation. Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol. 23, no 3, pp 497-514. Springer.
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  The purpose of this paper is to explore how speakers enter each other’s reference frames during interactive decision-making and negotiation. It examines the relation between reciprocal adaptation, Interactive Alignment Theory and Theory of Theory-of-Mind by using ethno-methodological analysis of audio-recorded activities. The study concludes that problem reframing is affected by interactivity and led by discursive mechanisms such as reciprocal adaptation, which realize as two types of embodied, cognitive and emotional processing: interactive alignment and complex reasoning. The type of activity predicts the functions of cognitive processing. In strategic negotiations, such as plea bargains, interactive alignment realizes complex emotionally loaded Theory-of-Mind reasoning. In addition, the analysis indicates that the participation of a judge does not inhibit the anchoring effect but rather reinforces it interactively. The study suggests a tentative framework for analysis of framing by describing cognitive processing in terms of temporal, consciousness and communicative characteristics. Multi-functionality of discourse features demands careful study of context rather than assumption of linguistic-discursive functions.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-013-9363-5
• Martinovski. B. and Mao, W. (2009) Emotion as an argumentation engine: Modelling the role of emotion in negotiation. Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol. 18, no 3, pp 235-259.
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  The purpose of this paper is to present a model of emotion in negotiation, which reflects the active role emotions play in decision taking as modifiers of theory-of-mind models, goals and strategies. The model is based on empirical studies of human interaction in different activities such as plea bargains, simulated negotiations, doctor patient consultations, and virtual human–human interactions. We use empathy as an example of emotion, which has a natural and powerful function in the shaping and re-contextualization of decision processes. We study also the linguistic realization of emotions as forms of argumentation in authentic discourse.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-008-9153-7
• Martinovski. B. (2009) Emotion and interactive technology-mediated group decision and negotiation. Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol. 18, no 3, pp.189-192.
• Martinovski, B., Traum D. and Stacy Marsella. (2007) Rejection of empathy in negotiation. Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol. 16, no 1.  Download PDF
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  Trust is a crucial quality in the development of individuals and societies and empathy plays a key role in the formation of trust. Trust and empathy have growing importance in studies of negotiation. However, empathy can be rejected which complicates its role in negotiation. This paper presents a linguistic analysis of empathy by focusing on rejection of empathy in negotiation. Some of the rejections are due to failed recognition of the rejector’s needs and desires whereas others have mainly strategic functions gaining momentum in the negotiation. In both cases, rejection of empathy is a phase in the negotiation not a breakdown.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-006-9032-z
• Martinovski, B. (2006) A framework for analysis of mitigation in courts. Journal of Pragmatics. Vol. 38, no 12, pp 2065-2086.  Download PDF
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  Mitigation plays an important role in various social activities. It involves emotional, strategic, and pragmatic processing. This paper presents an activity-based framework for empirical discourse analysis of mitigation in public environments such as Swedish and Bulgarian courtroom examinations. Mitigation is defined as a pragmatic, cognitive, and linguistic behavior whose main purpose is to reduce vulnerability. The suggested framework consists of defense processes, which involve mitigating argumentation lines, discourse moves, and communication acts. Mitigation functions are described in terms of the participants’ actions and goals separately from politeness strategies. The study finds recognizable repetitive mitigation patterns of moves and acts across languages and legal systems, which realize, e.g. admissions as prolepses, denials as corrective counter-attacks, volunteered utterances as indications of witness rehearsals, etc. The witnesses’ tendency to volunteer information even on behalf of their own credibility indicates that they favor pro-party testimonies. Despite the objective judicial role of the prosecutor or judge and/or despite the examiners accommodating style, the verbal behavior of the witnesses exhibits constant anticipation of danger. Thus, mitigation in court functions as a strategy for coping with disagreement and conflict by facing it, anticipating it, and/or accepting it. Mitigation modifies not only illocutionary force but also discourse plans, mental models, social contexts, and (in courts) even personal fates.

  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.08.006
• Martinovski, B. (1995c) Shifting worlds or deictic signs in WWW. Indexicality. (ed.) Ch. Pankow, SSKKII: Göteborg.

Other Publications

• Martinovski, B. (2017) Communication Influences Culture and Emotion in Decision Taking and Negotiation. Proceedings of GDN 2017. Mareike Schoop (ed.) Hohenheim University, Hohenheim, Germany.  Download PDF
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  This paper proposes a dynamic modular model of emotion- and culture-based communication in decision taking and negotiation, which reflects intercultural communication processes and can be used in the design of life-like negotiation-training scenarios. Communication is defined as an opportunity for meeting of Otherness. Culture is defined as a semiotic process and a system, which builds upon Self and Other identities and which is sustained and modified through communication and cognitive-emotive mechanisms, such as reciprocal adaptation, interactive alignment and appraisal. Since culture covers many different aspects of social life i.e. people practice intercultural-communication on daily basis, Human-Virtual Agent interaction is modeled as a form of intercultural communication.

• Martinovski, B. (2014) Reciprocal adaptation in intercultural interaction contexts. In: Elisabeth André, Ruth Aylett, Gert Jan Hofstede, and Ana Paiva (eds) Computational Models of Cultural Behavior for Human-Agent Interaction. Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 14131.  Download PDF
• Martinovski, B., & Linn, J. (2013). On the Relation Between Well-Being and Communication: the Ethical Turn in Conceptualization of Communication with Case Analyses of Negotiation and Decision-Making in Pepfar. 18th ISA World Congress of Sociology. Presented at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014), Yokohama.
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  Conceptualization of communication has a crucial effect on communication itself and on communication research. This paper explores how communication affects and is affected by psychological well-being with case examples from an HIV/AIDS international treatment program (PEPFAR) implemented in Southern Africa. It calls for a re-evaluation of Weaver's metaphor on communication as exchange of information and develops Buber's and Peters' ideas on communication as a manifestation of the ethical, where the ethical is described as openness to otherness and communication is viewed as a tension between reproduction of Self with alterity. Mutuality is not viewed as a necessary condition for the ethical because it involves intimacy that can only be discretely expressed. It is assumed that the end of theodicy is not the end of the ethical because the ethical is a space of profound intimacy, beyond preachment. Extreme cases of annihilation of otherness can't be described as rational in some cases and not others, and have deeper roots than modernity. The paper identifies challenges for the ethical turn in communication such as patriarchal order, implantations, involvement of the ego, dehumanization, isolation of larger contexts, traumatic disorders, and states of denial. It also identifies what enhances communication as an ethical process: reciprocal adaptation, intercultural communication, nurturing of hybrid cultures, and distance taking techniques such as time, distance, attention/topic shift, emotions such as feelings of awe, and art. Case analyses of negotiation and decision-making in PEPFAR are discussed. Implications of effective interpersonal & intercultural communication through the process of reciprocal adaptation for program success, reduced participant stress, and higher participant morale and psychological well-being in HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Southern Africa are described.

• Martinovski, B. (2012) Reframing framing: Emotion and interactivity in group decision and negotiation? In Proceedings of GDN 2012, 20-24 May 2012, Recife, Brazil.  Download PDF
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  The purpose of this paper is to relate the concept of framing in decision-making and negotiation to interaction. It explores the relation between reciprocal adaptation, interactive alignment theory and theory of Theory of Mind by observing authentic data. It uses two types of activity: an everyday sharing between two friends and a plea bargain negotiation. The study finds that problem reframing or negotiation is affected by interactivity and led by discursive mechanisms such as reciprocal adaptation, which realizes interactive alignment and complex reasoning. The type of activity predicts the functionality of reciprocal adaptation. It notices that in plea bargains interactive alignment realizes complex Theory of Mind reasoning and that due to multi-functionality of discourse features alignment can’t be measured based on statistical occurrences.

• Kopp, M., & Martinovski, B. (2010). Swedish Patriarchic Communication Patterns. Proceedings of International Sociology Association, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden. Presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Sociology on the Move Gothenburg, Sweden 11 - 17 July, 2010.
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  Although there are many forms of organisation and distribution of power and trust, such as kingdoms, democracies, oligarchies, tyrannies, etc. they all have one common feature: they are patriarchies (Erturk, 2009). Western democracies and kingdoms are developed patriarchies. Sweden is known as developed egalitarian society but the patriarchic order is still in tact. This order has been kept for centuries and it is therefore hard to imagine another. As a first step towards the development of an understanding of a non-patriarchic order we study how communication maintains the patriarchic order. For the purpose, we do discourse analysis of group-decision occasions within Swedish institutions. We find that both women's and men's communicative patterns contribute to the long lasting stance of this order and suggest that an interruption of such communicative habits takes us one step away from patriarchy.

• David Traum, Anton Leuski, Antonio Roque, Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Jillian Gerten, Susan Robinson, Bilyana Martinovski (2008) Natural Language Dialogue Architectures for Tactical Questioning Characters.  Download PDF
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  In this paper we contrast three architectures for natural language questioning characters. We contrast the relative costs and benefits of each approach in building characters for tactical questioning. The first architecture works purely at the textual, using cross-language information retrieval techniques to learn the best output for any input from a training set of linked questions and answers. The second architecture adds a global emotional model and computes a compliance model, which can result in different outputs for different levels, given the same inputs. The third architecture works at a semantic level and allows authoring of different policies for response for different kinds of information. We describe these architectures and their strengths and weaknesses with respect to expressive capacity, performance, and authoring demands.

• Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Antonio Roque, Bilyana Martinovski, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Jillian Gerten, David Traum (2008) From Domain Specification to Virtual Humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. Army Science Conference, Florida, USA.  Download PDF
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  We present a new approach for rapidly developing dialogue capabilities for virtual humans. Starting from domain specification, an integrated authoring interface automatically generates dialogue acts with all possible contents. These dialogue acts are linked to example utterances in order to provide training data for natural language understanding and generation. The virtual human dialogue system contains a dialogue manager following the information-state approach, using finite-state machines and SCXML to manage local coherence, as well as explicit modeling of emotions and compliance level and a grounding component based on evidence of understanding. Using the authoring tools, we design and implement a version of the virtual human Hassan and compare to previous architectures for the character.

• Traum, David, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Panayiotis Georgiou, Jillian Gerten, Bilyana Martinovski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Susan Robinson and Ashish Vaswani (2007) Hassan: A Virtual Human for Tactical Questioning, In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp 71–74, Antwerp, Belgium.  Download PDF
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  We present Hassan, a virtual human who engages in Tactical Questioning dialogues. We describe the tactical questioning domain, the motivation for this character, the specific architecture and present brief examples and an evaluation.

• Jan, Dushan, David Herrera, Bilyana Martinovski, David Novick, and David Traum (2007) A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior, IVA07, Marina Del Rey, USA.  Download PDF
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  This paper presents a model for simulating cultural differences in the conversational behavior of virtual agents. The model provides parameters for differences in proxemics, gaze and overlap in turn taking. We present a review of literature on these factors and show results of a study where native speakers of North American English, Mexican Spanish and Arabic were asked to rate the realism of the simulations generated based on different cultural parameters with respect to their culture.

  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_5
• Martinovski, B. (2007) Shifting Attention as Re-contextualization in Negotiation, In Proceedings of GDN, Montreal, May 2007.
• Martinovski, B. and A. Vaswani. (2006) Activity-Based Dialogue Analysis as Evaluation Method. Interspeech Workshop: Dialogue on Dialogue, Pittsburgh, USA.  Download PDF
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  This paper uses linguistic activity-based dialogue analysis in order to characterize, evaluate and compare activities. We find that human-human and human-machine interaction via radio are equally efficient but offer different styles of learning and instruction.

• Martinovski, Bilyana. (2006) Cognitive and Emotive Empathy in Discourse: Towards an Integrated Theory of Mind. In Proceedings of CogSci 2006, Vancouver, Canada.  Download PDF
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  This paper presents an empirical qualitative analysis of eliciting, giving and receiving empathy in discourse. The study identifies discursive and linguistic features, which realize cognitive, emotive, parallel and reactive empathy and suggests that imitation, simulation and representation could be non-exclusive processes in Theory of Mind reasoning.

• Susan Robinson, Bilyana Martinovski, Saurabh Garg, Jens Stephan, David Traum (2006) Issues in Corpus Development for Multi-Party Multi-Modal Task-Oriented Dialogue.  Download PDF
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  This paper describes the development of a multi-modal corpus based on multi-party multi-task driven common goal oriented spoken language interaction. The data consists of approximately 10 hours of audio human simulation radio data and nearly 5 hours of video and audio face-to-face sessions between human trainees and virtual agents.

• Traum, David et al. (2005) Virtual Humans for Non-team Interaction Training. In Proceedings of SIGdial 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
• David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Patrick Kenny, Eduard Hovy, Shri Narayanan, Ed Fast, Bilyana Martinovski, Rahul Baghat, Susan Robinson, Andrew Marshall, Dagen Wang, Sudeep Gandhe and Anton Leuski (2005) Dealing with Doctors: A Virtual Human for Non-team Interaction. Demo presented at Sigdial 05, September 2005.  Download PDF
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  We present a virtual human doctor who can engage in multi-modal negotiation dialogue with people from other organizations. The doctor is part of the SASO-ST system, used for training for non-team interactions.

• Martinovski, B., Kennedy, B., Vaswani, A., Roque, A. and D. Traum. (2005) Interactive Action via Radio: Translation and Coding Manual for ‘Call for Fire’. Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, USA.
• Martinovski, B., Mao. W., Gratch, J., and Stacy Marsella (2005) Mitigation Theory: An Integrated Approach. In Proceedings of Cog Sci 2005, Stresa, Italy.  Download PDF
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  The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model of mitigation by integrating cognitive and discourse approaches to appraisal and coping. Mitigation involves strategic, emotional, linguistic, and Theory of Mind processes on different levels of consciousness. We emphasize that discourse analysis can assist our understanding of these processes.

• Martinovski, B., Traum D. and Stacy Marsella (2005) Rejection of Empathy and its Linguistic Manifestations. In Proceedings of Conference on Formal and Informal Negotiation, FINEXIN 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
• Martinovski, B. and Stacy Marsella (2005) Theory of Mind and Coping in Discourse. In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Social Behavior, AISB 2005, Hatfield, U.K.  Download PDF
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  How are models of each other and ourselves created, maintained and altered? This paper explores the answer to this question by studying the realization of coping and mitigation strategies in discourse of blame. We use coping strategies such as active coping with stressor, avoidance, prevention, and acceptance to structure the discursive analysis of authentic interaction in courtrooms and hospitals representing different countries and languages.

• Saurabh Garg, Bilyana Martinovski, Susan Robinson, Jens Stephan, Joel Tetreault, David R Traum (2004). Evaluation of Transcription and Annotation Tools for a Multi-Modal, Multi-Party Dialogue Corpus.  Download PDF
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  This paper reviews none available transcription annotation tools, considering in particular the special difficulties arising from transcribing and annotating multi-party, multi-model dialogue. Tools are evaluated as to the ability to support the users annotation scheme, ability to visualize the form of the data, compatibility with other tools, flexibility of data representation, and general user-friendliness.

• Martinovski, B. and David Traum (2003). The Error is the Clue: Breakdown in Human-Machine Interaction. Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop International Speech Communication Association, Switzerland.  Download PDF
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  This paper focuses not on the detection and correction of specific errors in the interaction between machines and humans, but rather cases of massive deviation from the user's conversational expectations and desires. This can be the result of too many or too unusual errors, but also from dialogue strategies designed to minimize error, which make the interaction unnatural in other ways. We study causes of irritation such as over-fragmentation, over-clarity, over coordination, over-directedness, and repetitiveness of verbal action, syntax, and intonation. Human reactions to these irritating features typically appear in the following order: tiredness, tolerance, anger, confusion, irony, humor, exhaustion, uncertainty, lack of desire to communicate. The studied features of human expressions of irritation in nonface-to-face interaction are:intonation, emphatic speech, elliptic speech, speed of speech, extra-linguistic signs, speed of verbal action, and overlap.

• Martinovski, B. and Stacy Marsella. (2003) Dynamic Reconstruction of Selfhood: Coping Processes in Discourse. Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney.
• Martinovski, B. and David Traum (2003) Functions and Patterns of Speakers and Addressee Identifications in Distributed Complex Organizational Tasks Over Radio. Diabruck Proceedings, Saarland University.  Download PDF
• Martinovski, B. (2002) Manual for Coding of Military Speech. Los Angeles: Institute for Creative Technologies.
• Martinovski, B. (2001) Forensic Linguistics. Compendium. California University, Santa Barbara: Department of Linguistics.
• Martinovski, B. & Gronqvist, L. (2000b) Multimodal Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. Compendium. Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski”: Department of Bulgarian Philology and Department of Russian Philology.
• Martinovski, B. (2000a) Kognitiv semantik och pragmatik. Compendium. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics.
• Martinovski, B. (1997) Kognitiv semantik. Compendium. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics.
• Martinovski, B. (1996b) Förtröende och Företagsledning. In Report on Trust and Leadership. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics and School of Economy.
• Martinovski, B. (1996a) Speech and Activity Style: a comparative study of two activities – an interview and a discussion. Monograph. Gothenburg Papers in Theoretical Linguistics, Göteborgs University: Department of Linguistics.
• Martinovski, B. (1995e) Metaphors as Products of Abductive Reasoning. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics. Manuscript.
• Martinovski, B. (1995d) Three Cognitive Theories: Major Differences and Similarities. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics. Manuscript.
• Martinovski (1995c) Knowledge, Perception, and Inference. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics. Manuscript.
• Martinovski, B. & Dahloff, M. (1995a) Semiotik. Compendium. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics.
• Martinovski, B. (1992c) Cross-Linguistic Semantic Variation of Coordinate Conjunctions. University of Gothenburg: Department of Slavic Languages. Manuscript.
• Martinovski, B. (1992b) Intertextualitetsmodeller i Stig Dagermans korta noveller. University of Gothenburg: Department of Literary Theory. Manuscript (Swedish).
• Martinovski, B. (1992a) William av Occam – Semantik och Epistemologi. University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics. Manuscript (Swedish).

Invited Talks / Papers

• Martinovski, B. (2017) Communication Influences Culture and Emotion in Decision Taking and Negotiation. Proceedings of GDN 2017. Mareike Schoop (ed.) Hohenheim University, Hohenheim, Germany.
• Thinking about Empathy, SSKKII, Göteborg, Sweden.
• Common ground negotiations, Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Toronto, 2009. Session co-chair with Melvin Shakun.
• Discourse, common ground and ethics: Is common ground a desirable condition for negotiation? Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Portugal 2008.
• Virtuality and Intercultural communication,Workshop on Intercultural communication and IT, University of Borås and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007.
• Empathy and Theory of Mind and Body in Evolution, Festskrift for Prof. Jens Allwood, August 2007.
• Shifting Attention as Re-contextualization in Negotiation, GDN, Montreal, May 2007.
• Semiotics, Communication Theory and Information Design, Department of Informatics and Business Computer Science, University of Borås, Sweden, January 2007.
• Activity–Based Communication Analysis and Conversation Analysis, Department of Informatics and Business Computer Science, University of Borås, Sweden, January 2007.
• Group Decision, Negotiation and Emotion, Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2006.
• Göteborg Corpus of Spoken Language and Interaction, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A., November 2000.
• Corpus Development, Tools and Discourse Analysis, Sofia State University “Kliment Ohridski”, May 2000.
• Corpus Design and Analysis, Verchelli University, Italy, May 1998.

Conference Papers and Presentations

Papers presented at international conferences:

• Marie Ells and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Is computer-mediated communication helpful for ICC? In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Chachula, Gabriela, Hubert Kucharski, Anna Lubas, Katarzyna Malachowska, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) The influence of Islam on advertising efforts. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
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  Intercultural communication involves also communication between different religions and forms of spirituality, including secularism. Are there different marketing strategies in secular and non-secular societies? We address this issue by studying the influence of Islam on international advertisement strategies. Islam has a tremendous impact on almost every aspect of Muslims’ lives. Religious beliefs determine consumers’ behavior (Essoo and Dibb, 2004) and creation of advertising messages (Kanso, 1992). The purpose of this article is to explain and illustrate what aspect of Islam should be taken into account while organizing advertising campaigns. The article provides useful hints for companies, especially managers responsible for preparing and conducting promotional campaigns aimed at Muslim markets.

• Ziyarazavi, Seyed Merat, Linda Andersson, Vitalii Budkevych, Thi Cam Thach Doan, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Intercultural Communication Web Service Design. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Azaneckaite, Aurelija, Sarunas Cesna, Hassan Mohamed, Christian Reinhalter and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) How Much Multiculturality Can a Kingdom Take? In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Kovács, Peter, Thomas Carlsson, Joanna Miklos, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Identity tourism in Internet-based intercultural communication. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Reeh, A., S. Aydin, J. Moréno, M. Jiménez García, G. Rodrigo Mota, and B. Martinovski (2009) Body language in intercultural and cross-cultural communication. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Seifner, Ulrike, Edina Struhár, Ganesh Murugan, Kai Yu, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Food is GOOD! Dining etiquette and eating habits from spätzle through naan till rice. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Ronan, Paul, David Russell, Alejandro Guerrero Milan, Danny Spring, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Globalisation of Stereotypes. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Xuyan, Li, Peter Heuts, Adib Kalantar Mehrjerdi, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Click-click - Greeting You & Me. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Geyrhofer, Johanna, Mohammedreza Farmand, Sanaz Mossavi, Sabrina Schell, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Cultural influences and differences for international students in Sweden. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
• Kim, Seung Bong, Alihesam Azari, Umer Jawaid, Jung Eun Kim, Seyed Nasir Mortezaei Kerahroudi, and Bilyana Martinovski (2009) Greetings for successful communication from East to Middle East. In Proceedings of 16^th NIC Conference on Intercultural Communication, Borås, Sweden.
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  Intercultural communication and meetings with new cultures play a significant role in the process of globalization. In that context, initial greetings are important as they affect first impressions and as they give the first emotional tone of a relationship. What factors affect initial greetings in a more profound way, national culture and language or type of interpersonal relationship? The present article approaches this question by describing cross-cultural differences and similarities in opening greetings from three Asian cultures, namely Iranian, Pakistani and South Korean. Relations between factors are explored through introspective observation of four parameters: gesture, posture, eye contact, and proximity. Interpersonal relationships are divided into three categories: family, friends and authority. The study finds that greetings are more similar across national culture than across relationship.

• Interactive Technology-Mediated Group Decision, Negotiation and Emotion, Web Science, Internal Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009.
• Virtuality and Intercultural communication, Workshop on Intercultural communication and IT, University of Borås and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007.
• Activity-Based Dialogue Analysis as Evaluation Method. (with Ashish Vaswani) Interspeech Workshop: Dialogue on Dialogue, Pittsburgh, USA 2006.
• Cognitive and Emotive Empathy in Discourse. Proceedings of CogSci 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
• Traum, David et al. Virtual Humans for non-team interaction training. Proceedings of SIGdial 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Mitigation Theory: An Integrated Approach. (with Wenji Mao, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella) In Proceedings of Conference on Cognitive Science, Cog Sci 2005, Stressa, Italy.
• Rejection of Empathy and its Linguistic Manifestations. (with David Traum and Stacy Marsella) In Proceedings of Conference on Formal and Informal Negotiation, FINEXIN 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
• Theory of Mind and Coping in Discourse. (with Stacy Marsella) In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Social Behavior, AISB 2005, Hatfield, U.K.
• Communication as reproduction of self vs. ethics of otherness. Nordic Conference on Intercultural Communication, NIC 2004, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden.
• The Error is the Clue: Breakdown in Human-Machine Interaction. Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop International Speech Communication Association, Switzerland 2003.
• Dynamic Reconstruction of Selfhood: Coping Processes in Discourse. Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney 2003.
• Functions and Patterns of Speakers and Addressee Identifications in Distributed Complex Organizational Tasks Over Radio. Diabruck Proceedings, Saarland University 2003.
• Virtual Reality and Role Play, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC, February 2003.
• Ethics, Communication, and Media, Hawaii International Conference in Arts and Humanities, January 2003.
• Corpora, Military, and Virtual Reality, Göteborg, Sweden, September 2002.
• Anatomy of Court Speechification, Conference on Human Frailty, Bristol, September 2001.
• Ethics and Communication in Courts, LISO: University of southern California, Santa Barbara, April 2001
• Göteborg Corpus of Spoken Language and Interaction, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), California, U.S.A., November 2000.
• Bulgarian Corpus Linguistics and Bulgarian Orthography, Workshop on Corpus Linguistics, Sofia Bulgaria, May 2000.
• Epistemic particles in Swedish – ‘ju’, ‘väl’, ‘nog’, Nordic Workshop on Discourse Particles, Uppsala, January 2000.
• Are Doubts Negotiable in Courts? , International Pragmatics Conference, PRAGMA, Tel-Aviv, June 1999.
• On Universals in Interaction", 5^th NIC Symposium in Intercultural Communication, Göteborg, Sweden, November 1998.
• A Study on the Function and the Analysis of Communicative Acts, Workshop on Law and Pragmatics, Oñati, Spain 1998.
• Interactive Management of Doubts During Courtroom Examinations, Nordic Conference on Spoken Language Interaction, Linköping, Sweden 1998.
• Interactive Mechanisms in Swedish and Bulgarian Courtroom Interrogations, Sixth International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, France 1998.
• Workshop on Conversation Analysis, York, Great Britain 1998.
• Repetitions in Courts, Third Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguistics, Durham, USA 1997.
• Copy-Sequences in Courtroom Examinations, Law and Society Conference, St. Louis, USA 1996.

5. Academic Services

Program Director

• Director of Program in Informatics and Co-Design, University College of Borås (2007-2008)
• Assistant director of the International MBA program for Intercultural Business Communication, Göteborg University (1996 – 1997)
• Webmaster, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University (1996 – 1999)

Editing and Reviewing Work

Guest Editor

• Series of Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, Amsterdam: Springer, 2015.
• Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol 18, No. 3, May 2009.

Program Committees

• Conference Committee Track Chair Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Moscow, GDN2022
• Track chair, Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Toronto, GDN2021
• Track chair, Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Toronto, GDN2020
• Track chair, Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Loughborough, GDN2019
• Track chair, member of editorial board, Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Nanjing, GDN2018
• Track chair, member of editorial board, Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Hohenheim, GDN2017
• Track chair, Program Committee Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Toulouse, GDN2014
• Program Chair Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Stockholm, GDN2013  Visit Conference Website
• Conference Chair Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Stockholm, GDN2013
• Program Chair Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Amman, GDN2012
• Program Committee Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Delft, GDN2010
• Program Committee Nordic Conference on Intercultural Communication, Sweden, NIC2009
• Program Committee NODALIDA 2007
• Co-chair International Workshop on Cross-cultural and Culture-Specific Aspects of Conversational Backchannels and Feedback, ICT, USA (5-7 Dec 2006)
• Program Committee 10^th Nordic Conference on Intercultural Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2003)
• Program Committee First Nordic Conference on Multimodal and Multimedia Communication, Gothenburg University, Sweden (1997)
• Organizing and Program Committee, 5^th Nordic Conference on Intercultural Communication, Gothenburg University, Sweden (1998)

Invited Reviews

• Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic (2017)
• Dialogue and Discourse, Bielefeld University, Germany (2017)
• Dutch Academy of Sciences, EU (2014)
• Journal of Pragmatics (2013)
• Group Decision and Negotiation (2010-2018)
• CogSci’06, Vancouver, Canada (2006)
• EuroCogSci’07, Greece (2007)
• Symposium on Mind Minding Environments, AISB’07, (2007)
• 16^th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 07 (2007)
• International Journal for Conflict Management, Turkey (2010)
• Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, IGI-Global (2014)

Editorial Boards

• Journal of Social Sciences (since 2013)
• Journal of Language for Special Purposes, Bochum, Germany (since 2007)
• Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, New York-Amsterdam (2008-2018)
• Journal of Intercultural Communication, Sweden (since 1999).  View Editorial Board

6. Course Pages

• Multimedia and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics  Visit Archived Page
• Semantics  Visit Archived Page
• Cognitive Semantics and Pragmatics  Visit Archived Page

7. Literature and Journalism

• The Quiet Summers of the Turtledoves (2014)  Download PDF
• Тихите лета на гугутките (2014)  Download PDF
• Global Wars and Local Grieves Or Globalizing the Unethical (2002)  Download PDF
• Miss Julie walked on Santa Monica Boulevard (2002)  Download PDF
• The NATO War (1999)  Download PDF
• Israel (1999)  Download PDF
• The Skies and Lights of Barcelona (1998)  Download PDF

8. Contact Details

Email

bilyana.martinovski@gmail.com