Predicting the attitude flow in dialogue based on multi-modal speech cues
Peter Juel Henrichsen, Jens Allwood · 2013
We present our experiments on attitude detection based on annotated multi-modal dialogue data1. Our long-term goal is to establish a computational model able to predict the attitudinal patterns in humanhuman dialogue. We believe, such prediction algorithms are useful tools in the pursuit of realistic discourse behavior in conversational agents and other intelligent man-machine interfaces. The present paper deals with two important subgoals in particular: How to establish a meaningful and consistent set of annotation categories for attitude annotation, and how to relate the annotation data to the recorded data (audio and video) in computational models of attitude prediction. We present our current results including a recommended set of analytical annotation labels and a recommended setup for extracting linguistically meaningful data even from noisy audio and video signals.