In this paper, an attempt is made to automatically identify the activity a meeting is in. The input used in this identification is the frequency of each possible conversational state, and the frequency with which each speakers speaks. A number of classifiers were created and trained, and they performed very well when it was known in advance when an meeting switched activities. The performance, ...

The present study is an attempt to investigate conversational repair phenomenon in Persian dramatic discourse and it tries to check the presence of any predominant preference for employing a specific type of repair rather than the others in the context of Persian drama. To reach the aforementioned purpose, Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks’s (1977) framework has been adopted and applied to Akbar ...

Repairs –the various ways in which people edit and reformulate conversational turns– are a characteristic feature of natural dialogue. However, relatively little is known about their overall frequency or distribution in conversation. We present a systematic, quantitative study of patterns of repair in two corpora: ‘ordinary’ dialogues from the British National Corpus (BNC) and task-oriented dia...

A crucial aspect of everyday conversational interactions is our ability to establish and maintain common ground. Understanding the relevant mechanisms involved in such social coordination remains an important challenge for cognitive science. While common ground is often discussed in very general terms, different contexts of interaction are likely to afford different coordination mechanisms. In ...

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...

We report on an experiment on the effects of inducing acoustic understanding problems in task-oriented dialogue. We found that despite causing real problems w.r.t. task performance, many instances of induced problems were not explicitly repaired by the dialogue participants. Almost all repairs referred to the immediately preceding utterance, with problems in prior utterances left unacknowledged...

The exact timing of a conversational turn conveys important information to listener. Most turns are initiated within 250ms after the previous turn. However, interlocutors take longer initiate certain types turns: those that either require more cognitive processing or socially dispreferred. Many dispreferred also cognitively demanding, so it is difficult attribute specific delays social mechanis...

PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to identify problems with communication with persons with aphasia and persons with dementia in a collaborative interview setting with their significant others. In particular, to compare interactional practices used in order to resolve problems caused by specific symptoms. METHOD Five persons with aphasia and five persons with dementia and their spouses...