Mutual Gaze and Linguistic Repetition in a Multimodal Corpus

Anais Murat, Maria Koutsombogera, Carl Vogel


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.
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2022.lrec-1.296
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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2771–2780
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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.
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