Finishing each other's ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue

Abstract:

A distinguishing feature of dialogue is that contributions can be fragmentary or incomplete. Such incomplete utterances may be later completed by another interlocutor. These cross-person compound contributions (CCs) are a paradigmatic feature of dialogue and have been hypothesised to be more likely in predictable contexts but the contributions of different sources of predictability has not been systematically investigated. We present an experiment which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to ever systematically attempt to induce continuations in an ongoing dialogue.

Research areas:

• Dialogue
• Compound contributions
• DiET chat tool
• Online text chat

Year:

2012

Type of Publication:

In Proceedings

Book title:

Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing

Address:

Riva del Garda, Italy

Month:

September