Predicting Success in Dialogue

David Reitter; Johanna D. Moore

Predicting Success in Dialogue

David Reitter, Johanna D. Moore

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Abstract

Task-solving in dialogue depends on the linguistic alignment of the interlocutors, which Pickering & Garrod (2004) have suggested to be based on mechanistic repetition effects. In this paper, we seek confirmation of this hypothesis by looking at repetition in corpora, and whether repetition is correlated with task success. We show that the relevant repetition tendency is based on slow adaptation rather than short-term priming and demonstrate that lexical and syntactic repetition is a reliable predictor of task success given the first five minutes of a taskoriented dialogue.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	808-815
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2007

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