This study investigates the variability in the temporal alignment of turn initiations and its relationship to the entrainment and power structure between the interlocutors. The data come from spontaneous, task-oriented human-human dialogues in Standard American English, and focus on singleword turn-initial utterances. The descriptive and quantitative analysis of the data show that an emergent a...

This article explores the representations and reasoning by which dialogue systems can work collaboratively and creatively to communicate successfully with interlocutors in situations of transient uncertainty. In these situations, dialogue is shaped by the hierarchy of activities underway in the interaction, by the dynamics of linguistic context, and by the array of possibilities that interlocut...

Language use can be viewed as a form of joint activity that requires the coordination of meaning between individuals. Because the linguistic signal is notoriously ambiguous, interlocutors need to draw upon additional sources of information to resolve ambiguity and achieve shared understanding. One way individuals can achieve coordination is by using inferences about the interlocutor's intention...

An important factor of argument mining in dialog or multilog data is the framing with which interlocutors put forth their arguments. By using rhetorical devices such as hedging or reference to the Common Ground, speakers relate themselves to their interlocutors, their arguments, and the ongoing discourse. Capitalizing on theoretical linguistic insights into the semantics and pragmatics of disco...

A network system is given as a set of Petri net-like structures called agents. Each agent has a singled out place interpreted as a communication port with ingoing edges labelled with send(p1, ..., pn) and receive(q1, ..., qm) commands, where pi, qj are names of ports of its interlocutors. Every such edge exits a transition emiting a request for send or receive message. A transmission channel be...

CENTER FOR SEMIOTICS Recent approaches conceive of linguistic conversations as interpersonal synergies: In dialogue, interlocutors’ actions and cognitive processes become nonlinearly coupled and interdependent, enabling collective cognitive processes [1-3]. We apply complexity matching a measure of coupling across multiple time-scales to joint decision dialogues to investigate if interlocutors’...

Good interlocutors are a blessing, and needless to say, I’m feeling very blessed today. This is especially true for project in which vision figures so centrally, since we often see most clearly through the parallax of another’s eyes. Contributors this conversation have cast distinct lines sight onto Anticolonial Eruptions that allowed me both otherwise better, recognize elements my original arg...

Aims The aim of this study was (i) to document the main features of surgery nurses' telephone calls, with a special focus on newcomers' calls; and (ii) to identify the main activities accomplished during the newcomers' calls. Design Mixed methods study. Methods We audio recorded telephone calls internal to the hospital in two surgery nursing stations. We performed statistical descriptive an...