Turn-timing in signed conversations: coordinating stroke-to-stroke turn boundaries

Turn-timing in signed conversations: coordinating stroke-to-stroke turn boundaries

In spoken interactions, interlocutors carefully plan, and time their utterances, minimizing gaps and overlaps between consecutive turns. Cross-linguistic comparison has indicated that spoken languages vary only minimally in terms of turn-timing, and language acquisition research has shown pre-linguistic vocal turn-taking in the first half year of life. These observations suggest that the turn-t...

The perception of stroke-to-stroke turn boundaries in signed conversation

Speaker transitions in conversation are often brief, with minimal vocal overlap. Signed languages appear to defy this pattern with frequent, long spans of simultaneous signing. But recent evidence suggests that turn boundaries in signed language may only include the content-bearing parts of the turn (from the first stroke to the last), and not all turn-related movement (from first preparation t...

Coordinating turn-taking with gaze

This paper explores the role of gaze in coordinating turn-taking in mixed-initiative conversation and specifically how gaze indicators might be usefully modeled in computational dialogue systems. We analyzed about 20 minutes of videotape of eight dialogues by four pairs of subjects performing a simple face-to-face cooperative laboratory task. We extend previous studies by explicating gaze patte...

Automatic turn segmentation in spoken conversations

In this paper we have studied the problem of detecting the spoken turn boundaries in human-human spoken conversations. The automation of this task is essential to enable the analysis, recognition and understanding of the speech transcriptions and dialog structures (e.g. turn taking, dialog act segmentation etc.). The problem formulation is different from previous work on metadata extraction in ...

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.