@InProceedings{Reichel2018_416,
author = {Uwe D. Reichel and Piroska Lendvai},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018},
title = {Dodging the Question in Competitive Spoken Dialogs: Semantic and Prosodic Characteristics},
year = {2018},
editor = {André Berton and Udo Haiber and Wolfgang Minker},
month = mar,
pages = {263--270},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {We examined conversational non-cooperation in human–human task- oriented dialogues in English. Our approach was to identify prosodic and semantic patterns that characterize replies to information-seeking dialogue acts of task-solving, in a corpus holding competitive and cooperative scenarios. Appropriate and inappropriate replies were manually defined on the dialog act level; all information-containing replies were characterized in terms of speech signal and semantic content (vocabulary, entropy, sentiment). We found that communicative means for dodging a question include reduced content-providing, increased negative sentiment and a stronger F0 declination trend. Some prosodic markers also indicate that holding back information increases the speaker’s cognitive workload.},
isbn = {978-3-959081-28-3},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Speech Dialog},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2018_263_270.pdf},
}