@inproceedings{murat-vogel-2026-gaze,
    title = "Gaze Behaviour {\&} Conversation Unfolding in the {HCRC} Map Task Corpus",
    author = {Murat, Ana{\"i}s Claire  and
      Vogel, Carl},
    editor = "Bunt, Harry",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 22nd Joint {ACL} - {ISO} Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation ({ISA}-22) @ {LREC} 2026",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/revision-workflow/2026.isa-1.11/",
    doi = "10.63317/33muut9zdprh",
    pages = "99--110",
    abstract = "Dialogue interactions have varied internal structure, with flow varying, inter alia, in face of both difficulty and agreement. This study investigates eye-gaze in the linguistic progression of interactions. We observe the relation of gaze to illocutionary functions of turns through dialogue acts, and to how turns present ``new'' or ``old'' content, through lexical entropy and repetition. Results on the HCRC Map Task corpus, enabled by an event alignment annotation method described, show how gaze is related to linguistic progression. A gaze towards the conversation partner at the end of a turn tends to align with complexity and difficulties being expressed in the turn, while keeping gaze down at the map is more typical of obstacle- and disagreement-free interactions. Addressees who look up or off at the start of a turn show evidence of lexicon adaptation to gaze values."
}