People are very adept at recognizing when something they said has been misunderstood by a conversational partner and at recognizing when they themselves have misunderstood something that was said earlier in the conversation. In either case, they will usually say something to repair the situation and regain mutual understanding. The same is true of non-understanding. If computers are ever to con...

The ability to repair problems with hearing or understanding in conversation is critical for successful communication. This article describes the linguistic practices of other-initiated repair (OIR) in Icelandic through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of video-recorded conversations. The study draws on the conceptual distinctions developed in the comparative project on repair ...

In this article we consider the ways in which visual information is used as a conversational resource in the accomplishment of collaborative physical tasks. We focus on the role of visual information in maintaining task awareness and in achieving mutual understanding in conversation. We first describe the theoretical framework we use to analyze the role of visual information in physical collabo...

Troubles in hearing, comprehension or speech production are common in human conversations, especially if participants of the conversation communicate in a foreign language that they have not yet fully mastered. Here I describe a data-driven model for simulation of dialogue sequences where the learner user does not understand the talk of a conversational agent in chat and asks for clarification....

Abstract Conversational interfaces that interact with humans need to continuously establish, maintain and repair common ground in task-oriented dialogues. Uncertainty, repairs acknowledgements are expressed user behaviour the continuous efforts of conversational partners mutual understanding. Users change their when interacting systems different forms embodiment, which affects abilities these o...

BACKGROUND It is known that dysarthria arising from Parkinson's disease may affect intelligibility in conversational interaction. Research has also shown that Parkinson's disease may affect cognition and cause word-retrieval difficulties and pragmatic problems in the use of language. However, it is not known whether or how these problems become manifest in everyday conversations or how conversa...

This study describes the construction of a manually annotated speech corpus that focuses on the sound profiles of repair/disfluency in Mandarin conversational interaction. Specifically, the paper focuses on how the tag set of prosodic profiles of the recycling repair culled from both audio-tapped and video-tapped, face-to-face Mandarin interaction are decided. By the methodology of both acousti...

As problems of understanding arise in conversational interaction, we must find a means to indicate to our interlocutor the reason for our misunderstanding. However, we are simultaneously constrained by social interactive practices that limit face threat and adhere to epistemic rights. Thus, the challenge is to communicate our own misunderstanding as specifically as possible while avoiding expli...

In Voice over IP, the quality of interactive conversation is important to users. Major factors affecting perceived quality are delay, delay jitter, and missing packets. For conversational VoIP, a conversational delay also plays an important role for perceived quality. Large conversational delay can result in double talk, echo or even the termination of the conversation. In practice, a playout b...