Iconic Gestures with Spatial Semantics: A Case Study
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The spontaneous gestures that accompany spoken language are particularly suited to conveying spatial information, yet their briefness, individuality, and lack of conventional linguistic structure impede their integration into NLU systems. The current work characterizes spontaneous size gestures in a manual task corpus, clarifying their form, discourse role and representation as a first step toward incorporating them into NLU systems.
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