Dialog Convergence and Learning
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چکیده
In this paper we examine whether the student-to-tutor convergence of lexical and speech features is a useful predictor of learning in a corpus of spoken tutorial dialogs. This possibility is raised by the Interactive Alignment Theory, which suggests a connection between convergence of speech features and the amount of semantic alignment between partners in a dialog. A number of studies have shown that users converge their speech productions toward dialog systems. If, as we hypothesize, semantic alignment between a student and a tutor (or tutoring system) is associated with learning, then this convergence may be correlated with learning gains. We present evidence that both lexical convergence and convergence of an acoustic/prosodic feature are useful features for predicting learning in our corpora. We also find that our measure of lexical convergence provides a stronger correlation with learning in a human/computer corpus than did a previous measure of lexical cohesion.
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