objectives: the spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. the purpose of this study was to compare conversation, freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of mean length of utterance (mlu), type-token ratio (ttr), and the numbe...

The identification of personality by automatic analysis of conversation has many potential applications in natural language processing, from leader identification in meetings to partner matching on dating websites. We automatically train models of the main five personality dimensions, on a corpus of conversation extracts and personality ratings. Results show that the models perform better than ...

A conversation protocol specifies the desired global behaviors of a web service composition in a top-down fashion. Before implementing a conversation protocol, its realizability has to be determined, i.e., can a bottom-up web service composition be synthesized so that it generates exactly the same set of conversations as specified by the protocol? This chapter presents three sufficient conditio...

Cognitive linguistics and conversation analysis (a) converge in the analysis of category bound activities and (b) in viewing thinking and talking as embodied activities. The first aim of this paper is to outline these powerful theories as useful tools for the analysis of enacting empathy. The second aim is to outline these theories as useful tools for the analysis of how empathy is co-enacted i...

There has been much controversy recently as to whether the rules of interaction discovered by conversation analysts are amenable to use by computers (Gilbert 1990; Hirst 1991; Luff, Gilbert, and Frohlich 1990). Button (1990) has argued that the rules of conversation are of a different ontological category than the rules used by computers, and that this means computers cannot be programmed to en...

Coordination between conversation partners occurs at multiple levels, including choice of syntactic structure. A number of outstanding questions concerning the origin of this coordination require novel analytic techniques. Here we introduce and adapt a widely applied dynamical analysis, recurrence analysis. We use this method to explore lexical and syntactic coordination between children and ca...

This study addresses turn taking in everyday Mandarin conversation from a phonetic perspective, in particular, suprasegmental analysis. The acoustic data are based on 103 exchanges from two conversations – one structured and one free. The results show that turn final cues are mostly signaled via various falling intonation patterns in Mandarin conversation. Some anomalies exist and these are ana...

Building animated conversational agents requires developing a fine-grained analysis of the motions and meanings available to interlocutors in face-to-face conversation and implementing strategies for using these motions and meanings to communicate effectively. In this paper, we sketch our efforts to characterize people’s facial displays of uncertainty in face-to-face conversation. We analyze em...

E-mail–based conversations between thousands of people— very large-scale conversations (VLSCs)—now take place in a variety of on-line public spaces such as Usenet newsgroups and large listservs. This article describes the author’s prototype Conversation Map system, which can automatically analyze and graphically summarize thousands of e-mail messages exchanged in VLSCs. Example conversation map...