Abstract
This paper investigates the correlation between mutual gaze and linguistic repetition, a form of alignment, which we take as evidence of mutual understanding. We focus on a multimodal corpus made of three-party conversations and explore the question of whether mutual gaze events correspond to moments of repetition or non-repetition. Our results, although mainly significant on word unigrams and bigrams, suggest positive correlations between the presence of mutual gaze and the repetitions of tokens, lemmas, or parts-of-speech, but negative correlations when it comes to paired levels of representation (tokens or lemmas associated with their part-of-speech). No compelling correlation is found with duration of mutual gaze. Results are strongest when ignoring punctuation as representations of pauses, intonation, etc. in counting aligned tokens.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.296
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2771–2780
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.296
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Anais Murat, Maria Koutsombogera, and Carl Vogel. 2022. Mutual Gaze and Linguistic Repetition in a Multimodal Corpus. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2771–2780, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Mutual Gaze and Linguistic Repetition in a Multimodal Corpus (Murat et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2022.lrec-1.296.pdf