ISCA Archive SLaTE 2007
ISCA Archive SLaTE 2007

Automatically measuring lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence in tutorial dialog corpora

Arthur Ward, Diane Litman

We use language technology to develop corpus measures of lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence. We show that these measures successfully discriminate randomized from naturally ordered data, and demonstrate both lexical and acoustic/prosodic convergence in our corpus of human/human tutoring dialogs.