Second VENACO Workshop The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy September 16-20, 1991

Toward Multimodal Support of Interpreted Telephone Dialogues

Sharon L. Oviatt

Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA

Interpreted telephone dialogues present a fascinating example of spoken language during communications that are complex in the sense of being multiparty, multilingual, and mediated. In addition, of course, bandwidth limitations imposed by the telephone further influence interpreted dialogues. As a result, this type of spoken communication is structured radically differently than that of formal textual discourse, which historically has provided our models of discourse structure. Even within the realm of speech, research by the author indicates that three-person interpreted telephone dialogues differ substantially from the more common two-person noninterpreted ones.

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Bibliographic reference.  Oviatt, Sharon L. (1991): "Toward multimodal support of interpreted telephone dialogues", In SMMD-1991, 1-2.