ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Vigsø, Denmark May 30 - June 2, 1995

Lexical Accommodation in Human-interpreted and Machine-interpreted Dual Language Interactions

Laurel Fais, Kyung-ho Loken-Kim

ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

This paper examines the lexical accommodation rates in human to human and interpreted cooperative dialogues in unimodal and multimodal communication settings. Lexical accommodation rates increase significantly from human/human to machine-interpreted to human-interpreted conditions. Implications are drawn for standard interpretations of accommodation as well as for the effects of multimedia use and the design of automatic language processing systems.

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Bibliographic reference.  Fais, Laurel / Loken-Kim, Kyung-ho (1995): "Lexical accommodation in human-interpreted and machine-interpreted dual language interactions", In SDS-1995, 69-72.