Towards an annotation scheme for causes of laughter in dialogue

Abstract:

This paper presents a first attempt to develop an annotation scheme for laughter in dialogue operationalising the previously reported idea of laughter being caused by incongruity, and based on violations of Grice’s maxims. This exploratory scheme is intended to form the basis of a spoken dialogue system that can laugh during dialogue in a human like manner and can understand why users laugh. We present the scheme and discuss preliminary results

Research areas:

• Dialogue
• Laughter

Year:

2019

Type of Publication:

In Collection

Book title:

9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

Publisher:

Springer, Singapore

Editor:

D'Haro, L. and Banchs, R. and Li, H.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0_24