Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog

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Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog

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by Nigel G. Ward , Karen A. Richart-ruiz

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@MISC{Ward_patternsof,
    author = {Nigel G. Ward and Karen A. Richart-ruiz},
    title = {Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog},
    year = {}
}

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Abstract

Some things people say are more important, and some less so. The ability to automatically judge this, even approximately, would be a useful front end for many applications. This paper empirically examines importance as it varies from moment to moment in spoken dialog. Contextual prosodic features are informative, and importance is frequently associated with specific patterns of interaction that involve both participants and stretch over several seconds. A simple linear regression model gave importance estimates that correlated well, 0.83, with human judgments.

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