We use language technology to develop corpus measures of lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence. We show that these measures successfully discriminate randomized from naturally ordered data, and demonstrate both lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence in our corpus of human/human tutoring dialogs.
Cite as: Ward, A., Litman, D. (2007) Automatically measuring lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence in tutorial dialog corpora. Proc. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2007), 57-60
@inproceedings{ward07_slate,
author={Arthur Ward and Diane Litman},
title={{Automatically measuring lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence in tutorial dialog corpora}},
year=2007,
booktitle={Proc. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2007)},
pages={57--60}
}