@conference{Dobnik.Kelleher.Howes_SC_2020,
author = "Simon Dobnik and John D. Kelleher and Christine Howes",
abstract = "In this paper we examine how people assign, interpret, negotiate
and repair the frame of reference (FoR) in online text-based dialogues
discussing spatial scenes in English and Swedish. We describe our
corpus and data collection which involves a coordination experiment in
which dyadic dialogue participants have to identify differences in their
picture of a visual scene. As their perspectives of the scene are different,
they must coordinate their FoRs in order to complete the task. Results
show that participants do not align on a global FoR, but tend to align
locally, for sub-portions (or particular conversational games) in the dialogue.
This has implications for how dialogue systems should approach
problems of FoR assignment -- and what strategies for clarification they
should implement.",
address = "Riga, Latvia",
booktitle = "Spatial Cognition XII: Papers from 12th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2020/21",
editor = "Jurģis Šķilters and Nora S. Newcombe and David Uttal",
title = "{L}ocal alignment of frame of reference assignment in {E}nglish and {S}wedish dialogue",
url = "http://www.christinehowes.com/papers/Dobniketal_SC_draft-2020.pdf",
year = "2020",
}