Computational representation of discourse practices across populations in task-based dialogue
Elijah Mayfield, G. David Adamson, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Carolyn Penstein Rosé · 2012
In this work, we employ quantitative methods to describe the discourse practices observed in a direction giving task. We place a special emphasis on comparing differences in strategies between two separate populations and between successful and unsuccessful groups. We isolate differences in these strategies through several novel representations of discourse practices. We find that information sharing, instruction giving, and social feedback strategies are distinct between subpopulations in empirically identifiable ways.