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title = "Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies",
author = "Fuscone, Simone and
Favre, Benoit and
Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent",
editor = "Pietquin, Olivier and
Muresan, Smaranda and
Chen, Vivian and
Kennington, Casey and
Vandyke, David and
Dethlefs, Nina and
Inoue, Koji and
Ekstedt, Erik and
Ultes, Stefan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "1st virtual meeting",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.25",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.25",
pages = "203--208",
abstract = "Cognitive models of conversation and research on user-adaptation in dialogue systems involves a better understanding of speakers convergence in conversation. Convergence effects have been established on controlled data sets, for various acoustic and linguistic variables. Tracking interpersonal dynamics on generic corpora has provided positive but more contrasted outcomes. We propose here to enrich large conversational corpora with dialogue act (DA) information. We use DA-labels as filters in order to create data sub sets featuring homogeneous conversational activity. Those data sets allow a more precise comparison between speakers{'} speech variables. Our experiences consist of comparing convergence on low level variables (Energy, Pitch, Speech Rate) measured on raw data sets, with human and automatically DA-labelled data sets. We found that such filtering does help in observing convergence suggesting that studies on interpersonal dynamics should consider such high level dialogue activity types and their related NLP topics as important ingredients of their toolboxes.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies
%A Fuscone, Simone
%A Favre, Benoit
%A Prévot, Laurent
%Y Pietquin, Olivier
%Y Muresan, Smaranda
%Y Chen, Vivian
%Y Kennington, Casey
%Y Vandyke, David
%Y Dethlefs, Nina
%Y Inoue, Koji
%Y Ekstedt, Erik
%Y Ultes, Stefan
%S Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2020
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C 1st virtual meeting
%F fuscone-etal-2020-filtering
%X Cognitive models of conversation and research on user-adaptation in dialogue systems involves a better understanding of speakers convergence in conversation. Convergence effects have been established on controlled data sets, for various acoustic and linguistic variables. Tracking interpersonal dynamics on generic corpora has provided positive but more contrasted outcomes. We propose here to enrich large conversational corpora with dialogue act (DA) information. We use DA-labels as filters in order to create data sub sets featuring homogeneous conversational activity. Those data sets allow a more precise comparison between speakers’ speech variables. Our experiences consist of comparing convergence on low level variables (Energy, Pitch, Speech Rate) measured on raw data sets, with human and automatically DA-labelled data sets. We found that such filtering does help in observing convergence suggesting that studies on interpersonal dynamics should consider such high level dialogue activity types and their related NLP topics as important ingredients of their toolboxes.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.25
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.25
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.25
%P 203-208
Markdown (Informal)
[Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.25) (Fuscone et al., SIGDIAL 2020)
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