Title
High frequency word entrainment in spoken dialogue
Abstract
Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both production and comprehension in dialogue. In this paper we examine novel types of entrainment in two corpora---Switchboard and the Columbia Games corpus. We examine entrainment in use of high-frequency words (the most common words in the corpus), and its association with dialogue naturalness and flow, as well as with task success. Our results show that such entrainment is predictive of the perceived naturalness of dialogues and is significantly correlated with task success; in overall interaction flow, higher degrees of entrainment are associated with more overlaps and fewer interruptions.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
ACL (Short Papers)
dialogue partner,common word,task success,fewer interruption,overall interaction flow,cognitive theory,automatic alignment,dialogue hold,high frequency word entrainment,columbia games corpus,dialogue naturalness,linguistics,computer science,high frequency,information technology
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Information technology,Naturalness,Entrainment (chronobiology),Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Cognition,Comprehension
Conference
P08-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
49
3.09
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ani Nenkova11831109.14
Agustín Gravano213911.88
Julia Hirschberg32982448.62