Summary of the paper
| Title | Comparative Analysis of Verbal Alignment in Human-Human and Human-Agent Interactions |
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| Authors | Sabrina Campano, Jessica Durand and Chloé Clavel |
| Abstract | Engagement is an important feature in human-human and human-agent interaction. In this paper, we investigate lexical alignment as a cue of engagement, relying on two different corpora : CID and SEMAINE. Our final goal is to build a virtual conversational character that could use alignment strategies to maintain user's engagement. To do so, we investigate two alignment processes : shared vocabulary and other-repetitions. A quantitative and qualitative approach is proposed to characterize these aspects in human-human (CID) and human-operator (SEMAINE) interactions. Our results show that these processes are observable in both corpora, indicating a stable pattern that can be further modelled in conversational agents. |
| Topics | Discourse Annotation, Representation and Processing, Corpus (Creation, Annotation, etc.) |
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Comparative Analysis of Verbal Alignment in Human-Human and Human-Agent Interactions |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{CAMPANO14.327, author = {Sabrina Campano and Jessica Durand and Chloé Clavel}, title = {Comparative Analysis of Verbal Alignment in Human-Human and Human-Agent Interactions}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |