Abstract
According to the Entropy Rate Constancy (ERC) principle, the information density of a text is approximately constant over its length. Whether this principle also applies to nonverbal communication signals is still under investigation. We perform empirical analyses of video-recorded dialogue data and investigate whether listener gaze, as an important nonverbal communication signal, adheres to the ERC principle. Results show (1) that the ERC principle holds for listener gaze; and (2) that the two linguistic factors syntactic complexity and turn transition potential are weakly correlated with local entropy of listener gaze.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.findings-acl.210
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
- Editors:
- Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3533–3545
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.210
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Yu Wang, Yang Xu, Gabriel Skantze, and Hendrik Buschmeier. 2024. How Much Does Nonverbal Communication Conform to Entropy Rate Constancy?: A Case Study on Listener Gaze in Interaction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 3533–3545, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- How Much Does Nonverbal Communication Conform to Entropy Rate Constancy?: A Case Study on Listener Gaze in Interaction (Wang et al., Findings 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-bitext-workshop/2024.findings-acl.210.pdf