@inproceedings{threlkeld-de-ruiter-2022-duration,
    title = "The Duration of a Turn Cannot be Used to Predict When It Ends",
    author = "Threlkeld, Charles  and
      de Ruiter, Jp",
    editor = "Lemon, Oliver  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy  and
      Ashrafzadeh, Arash  and
      Garcia, Daniel Hern{\'a}ndez  and
      Alikhani, Malihe  and
      Vandyke, David  and
      Du{\v{s}}ek, Ond{\v{r}}ej",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = sep,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Edinburgh, UK",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2022.sigdial-1.35/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.sigdial-1.35",
    pages = "361--367",
    abstract = "Turn taking in conversation is a complex process. We still don{'}t know how listeners are able to anticipate the end of a speaker{'}s turn. Previous work focuses on prosodic, semantic, and non-verbal cues that a turn is coming to an end. In this paper, we look at simple measures of duration {---} time, word count, and syllable count {---} to see if we can exploit the duration of turns as a cue. We find strong evidence that these metrics are useless."
}