A natural conversation involves rapid exchanges of turns while talking. Taking turns at appropriate timing or intervals is a requisite feature for a dialog system as a conversation partner. This paper proposes a model that estimates the timing of turn-taking during verbal interactions. Unlike previous studies, our proposed model does not rely on a silence region between sentences since a dialog...

In his “On the System of Conversational Thinking: An Overview”, and in talk he presented as part development this paper (similarly titled), Jonathan Chimakonam attempts first systematic fusion various components Conversationalism. I refer to ideas ‘SCT’ (short for Thinking) comments below. my response, make an effort largely ignore comparative aspects work. other words, am not too concerned wit...

To facilitate further research in emergent turn-taking, we propose a metric for evaluating the extent to which agents take turns using a shared resource. Our measure reports a turn-taking value for a particular time and a particular time scale, or ‘resolution,’ in a way that matches intuition. We describe how to evaluate the results of simulations where turn-taking may or may not be present and...

The paper attempts to demonstrate how Conversation Analysis (CA) can help us pragmatically to explore the repair organization of human talk-in-interaction via the Web, and reports on a case study of conversational repair structures for Chinese academic discussion through Web. The data collection was based on naturally occurring written interaction on Web-based discussion boards from teacher edu...

Pedagogical strategies increasing rely on technology as a way to address challenges facing the contemporary higher education classroom. This study investigated the use of a tool designed with the specific purpose of student engagement in a large classroom. The tool allows students to post to a community based discussion in a manner similar to a Twitter feed. Despite engaging in a community dial...

Electronic meeting control has been the focus of many research efforts; however, extensively adopted standards are still unavailable. In this paper, we present a generic model for electronic meeting control. Our model is based on the formal meeting protocol commonly known as the parliamentary procedure or Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO). Capturing the essential features of traditional RRO, we sug...

This article outlines a three-party conversation corpus built by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Section 2) and introduces three analyses that contribute to the development of Conversational Informatics: The features of turn-taking in three-person conversation (Section 3); assessment sequential patterns that appeared in the data (Section 4); and shared knowl...

NATURAL LANGUAGE INFERENCE: FROM TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT TO CONVERSATION ENTAILMENT By Chen Zhang Automatic inference from natural language is a critical yet challenging problem for many language-related applications. To improve the ability of natural language inference for computer systems, recent years have seen an increasing research effort on textual entailment. Given a piece of text and a hypot...