Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue

We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words-a family of cue words such as "okay" or "alright" that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the...

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Autor principal: Gravano, Agustín
Publicado: 2012
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spelling paper:paper_08912017_v38_n1_p1_Gravano2023-06-08T15:47:08Z Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue Gravano, Agustín We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words-a family of cue words such as "okay" or "alright" that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor has said, indicating continued attention, or for cueing the start of a new topic, among other meanings. We describe differences in the acoustic/prosodic realization of such functions in a corpus of spontaneous, task-oriented dialogues in Standard American English. These results are important both for interpretation and for production in spoken language applications. We also assess the predictive power of computational methods for the automatic disambiguation of these words. We find that contextual information and final intonation figure as the most salient cues to automatic disambiguation. © 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics. Fil:Gravano, A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2012 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08912017_v38_n1_p1_Gravano http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_08912017_v38_n1_p1_Gravano
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description We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words-a family of cue words such as "okay" or "alright" that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor has said, indicating continued attention, or for cueing the start of a new topic, among other meanings. We describe differences in the acoustic/prosodic realization of such functions in a corpus of spontaneous, task-oriented dialogues in Standard American English. These results are important both for interpretation and for production in spoken language applications. We also assess the predictive power of computational methods for the automatic disambiguation of these words. We find that contextual information and final intonation figure as the most salient cues to automatic disambiguation. © 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics.
author Gravano, Agustín
spellingShingle Gravano, Agustín
Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
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title Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
title_short Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
title_full Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
title_fullStr Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
title_full_unstemmed Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
title_sort affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
publishDate 2012
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