Possible Lexical Cues for Backchannel Responses
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Looking for words that might cue backchannel feedback, I did a statistical analysis of the interlocutors’ words preceding 3363 instances of uh-huh in the Switchboard corpus. No clear cueing words were found, but collateral findings include the existence of semantic classes that slightly increase the likelihood of an upcoming uh-huh, the fact that different classes have their effects at different time lags, and the existence of words which strongly counter-indicate a subsequent uh-huh.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012