@conference{Purver.Howes.Gregoromichelaki.Healey_SIGDIAL_2009,
author = "Matthew Purver and Christine Howes and Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Patrick G. T. Healey",
abstract = "This paper presents a preliminary English corpus study of split utterances (SUs), single utterances split between two or more dialogue turns or speakers. It has been suggested that SUs are a key phenomenon of dialogue, which this study confirms: almost 20% of utterances were found to fit this general definition, with nearly 3% being the between-speaker case most often studied. Other claims/assumptions in the literature about SUs’ form and distribution are investigated, with preliminary results showing: splits can occur within syn-tactic constituents, apparently at any point in the string; it is unusual for the separate parts to be complete units in their own right; explicit repair of the antecedent does not occur very often. The theoretical con-sequences of these results for claims in the literature are pointed out. The practical implications for dialogue systems are mentioned too.",
address = "London, UK",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)",
month = "sep",
pages = "262--271",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
title = "{S}plit utterances in dialogue: {A} corpus study",
url = "http://www.christinehowes.com/papers/purver-et-al09sigdial-corpus.pdf",
year = "2009",
}