Abstract
Engagement is an important feature in human-human and human-agent interaction. In this paper, we investigate lexical alignment as a cue of engagement, relying on two different corpora : CID and SEMAINE. Our final goal is to build a virtual conversational character that could use alignment strategies to maintain user’s engagement. To do so, we investigate two alignment processes : shared vocabulary and other-repetitions. A quantitative and qualitative approach is proposed to characterize these aspects in human-human (CID) and human-operator (SEMAINE) interactions. Our results show that these processes are observable in both corpora, indicating a stable pattern that can be further modelled in conversational agents.- Anthology ID:
- L14-1289
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4415–4422
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/327_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sabrina Campano, Jessica Durand, and Chloé Clavel. 2014. Comparative analysis of verbal alignment in human-human and human-agent interactions. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4415–4422, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Comparative analysis of verbal alignment in human-human and human-agent interactions (Campano et al., LREC 2014)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/327_Paper.pdf