Modeling Interpersonal Linguistic Coordination in Conversations Using Word Mover’s Distance
Md Nasir, Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Brian Baucom, David C. Atkins, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth Shri Narayanan · 2019
embeddings and extend it to measure the dissimilarity in language used in multiple consecutive speaker turns. To validate our approach, we apply this measure for two case studies in the clinical psychology domain. We find that our proposed measure is correlated with the therapist's empathy towards their patient in Motivational Interviewing and with affective behaviors in Couples Therapy. In both case studies, our proposed metric exhibits higher correlation than previously proposed measures. When applied to the couples with relationship improvement, we also notice a significant decrease in the proposed measure over the course of therapy, indicating higher linguistic coordination.