@inproceedings{rahimi-litman-2018-weighting,
    title = "Weighting Model Based on Group Dynamics to Measure Convergence in Multi-party Dialogue",
    author = "Rahimi, Zahra  and
      Litman, Diane",
    editor = "Komatani, Kazunori  and
      Litman, Diane  and
      Yu, Kai  and
      Papangelis, Alex  and
      Cavedon, Lawrence  and
      Nakano, Mikio",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Annual {SIG}dial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = jul,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Melbourne, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W18-5046/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5046",
    pages = "385--390",
    abstract = "This paper proposes a new weighting method for extending a dyad-level measure of convergence to multi-party dialogues by considering group dynamics instead of simply averaging. Experiments indicate the usefulness of the proposed weighted measure and also show that in general a proper weighting of the dyad-level measures performs better than non-weighted averaging in multiple tasks."
}