TY - GEN
T1 - Predicting success in dialogue
AU - Reitter, David
AU - Moore, Johanna D.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Task-solving in dialogue depends on the linguistic alignment of the interlocutors, which Pickering & Garrod (2004) have suggested to be based on mechanistic repetition effects. In this paper, we seek confirmation of this hypothesis by looking at repetition in corpora, and whether repetition is correlated with task success. We show that the relevant repetition tendency is based on slow adaptation rather than short-term priming and demonstrate that lexical and syntactic repetition is a reliable predictor of task success given the first five minutes of a task-oriented dialogue.
AB - Task-solving in dialogue depends on the linguistic alignment of the interlocutors, which Pickering & Garrod (2004) have suggested to be based on mechanistic repetition effects. In this paper, we seek confirmation of this hypothesis by looking at repetition in corpora, and whether repetition is correlated with task success. We show that the relevant repetition tendency is based on slow adaptation rather than short-term priming and demonstrate that lexical and syntactic repetition is a reliable predictor of task success given the first five minutes of a task-oriented dialogue.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860518633
SN - 9781932432862
T3 - ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
SP - 808
EP - 815
BT - ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
T2 - 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007
Y2 - 23 June 2007 through 30 June 2007
ER -