ISCA Archive LW 2009
ISCA Archive LW 2009

On the Function of Smiles and Laughter in Conversation - Some figures on their distribution with respect to dialogue acts

Dirk Heylen

Smiles (and laughter) have played an important part in the debate on the status of facial and other nonverbal expressions with respect to the expressive systems humans deploy. In this paper, we report on a small study of the distribution of smiles and laughter in the AMI corpus. We have focussed in particular on the dialogue acts that accompany them.