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title = "Improving Backchannel Prediction Leveraging Sequential and Attentive Context Awareness",
author = "Park, Yo-Han and
Liermann, Wencke and
Choi, Yong-Seok and
Lee, Kong Joo",
editor = "Graham, Yvette and
Purver, Matthew",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024",
month = mar,
year = "2024",
address = "St. Julian{'}s, Malta",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.118/",
pages = "1689--1694",
abstract = "Backchannels, which refer to short and often affirmative or empathetic responses from a listener during a conversation, play a crucial role in effective communication. In this paper, we introduce CABP(Context-Aware Backchannel Prediction), a sequential and attentive context approach aimed at enhancing backchannel prediction performance. Additionally, CABP leverages the pretrained wav2vec model for encoding audio signal. Experimental results show that CABP performs better than context-free models, with performance improvements of 1.3{\%} and 1.8{\%} in Korean and English datasets, respectively. Furthermore, when utilizing the pretrained wav2vec model, CABP consistently demonstrates the best performance, achieving performance improvements of 4.4{\%} and 3.1{\%} in Korean and English datasets."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Improving Backchannel Prediction Leveraging Sequential and Attentive Context Awareness
%A Park, Yo-Han
%A Liermann, Wencke
%A Choi, Yong-Seok
%A Lee, Kong Joo
%Y Graham, Yvette
%Y Purver, Matthew
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C St. Julian’s, Malta
%F park-etal-2024-improving
%X Backchannels, which refer to short and often affirmative or empathetic responses from a listener during a conversation, play a crucial role in effective communication. In this paper, we introduce CABP(Context-Aware Backchannel Prediction), a sequential and attentive context approach aimed at enhancing backchannel prediction performance. Additionally, CABP leverages the pretrained wav2vec model for encoding audio signal. Experimental results show that CABP performs better than context-free models, with performance improvements of 1.3% and 1.8% in Korean and English datasets, respectively. Furthermore, when utilizing the pretrained wav2vec model, CABP consistently demonstrates the best performance, achieving performance improvements of 4.4% and 3.1% in Korean and English datasets.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.118/
%P 1689-1694
Markdown (Informal)
[Improving Backchannel Prediction Leveraging Sequential and Attentive Context Awareness](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.118/) (Park et al., Findings 2024)
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