"What are you laughing at?" Incremental processing of laughter in interaction

Abstract:

In dialogue, laughter is frequent and can precede, follow or overlap what is laughed at. In this paper, we provide a preliminary, but unitary formal account of how forward- and backward-looking laughter are processed and integrated within the Dynamic Syntax framework.

Research areas:

• Dialogue
• Dialogue modelling
• Dynamic Syntax
• Laughter

Year:

2019

Type of Publication:

In Proceedings

Book title:

Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

Address:

London, United Kingdom

Month:

September