Convergence of syntactic complexity in conversation

Yang Xu; David Reitter

doi:10.18653/v1/p16-2072

Convergence of syntactic complexity in conversation

Yang Xu, David Reitter

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Using corpus data of spoken dialogue, we examine the convergence of syntactic complexity levels between interlocutors in natural conversations, as it occurs within spans of topic episodes. The findings of general convergence in the Switchboard and BNC corpora are compatible with an information-theoretic model of dialogue and with Interactive Alignment Theory.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	443-448
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510827592
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p16-2072
State	Published - 2016
Event	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Berlin, Germany Duration: Aug 7 2016 → Aug 12 2016

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Name	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers

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Other	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	8/7/16 → 8/12/16

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Language and Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Linguistics and Language
Software

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Xu, Y., & Reitter, D. (2016). Convergence of syntactic complexity in conversation. In 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers (pp. 443-448). (54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p16-2072

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