Prosodic features which cue back-channel responses in English and Japanese

By Nigel G. Ward, W. Tsukahara. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling (2021, background): “…can improve the performance from text-only models on speech segmentation (Shriberg et al., 2000), dialogue act classiﬁcation (Shriberg et al., 1998; Ward and Tsukahara, 2000), syntactic parsing (Tran et al., 2017), speech–language pathology (Cohen et al., 2019), ASR (Ostendorf et al., 2003;…”
A study of gestural feedback expressions (2006, background): “Phonetic correlates for different function of short expressions have been found for a variety of languages: Italian (Cerrato 2002b), Swedish (Cerrato 2002a), English (Hirshberg & Nakatani 1996), Japanese (Ward & Tsukahara 2000), Dutch (Casper 2002).”
Conversational In-Vehicle Dialog Systems: The past, present, and future (2016, background): “Research on system-produced back channeling [38] offers promise for the future of natural interactive systems, but scaling to grounding in the safety and multiconversation environment requires a better understanding of how users interact with system-produced grounding mechanisms in real time and und”
Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents (2007, background): “backchannel continuers [16] (nods, elicited by speaker prosodic cues, that signify the communication is working), postural mirroring, and mimicry of certain head gestures (e.”
Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue (2011, background): “Ward and Tsukahara (2000) describe a region of low pitch lasting at least 110 ms as a backchannel-inviting cue.”
Addressee backchannels steer narrative development (2014, background): “Indeed, a number of studies of backchannels have used optionality as a key definitional criterion (e.g. Ward and Tsukahara, 2000).”
Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog (2012, background): “Because speakers of English frequently invite back-channel feedback from the interlocutor by producing low pitch regions (Ward and Tsukahara, 2000), we thought that the recent presence of such a region might also provide clues as to what words might occur soon.”