Investigating syntactic alignment in spoken natural language human-computer communication

Authors:
Benjamin R. Cowan;Russell Beale;Holly P. Branigan
Affiliations:
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom;The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom;The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Venue:
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper describes planned experiment-based research observing the existence of syntactic alignment in natural language computer interactions. This research will achieve this through using a computer-human version of the confederate communication task commonly used in psycholinguistic research observing syntactic alignment in human-human dialogue. The motivations of the work lie in observing the existence of syntactic alignment in human-computer dyads and how the naturalness of interaction affects the appearance of such a linguistic phenomenon. The work will also aim to identify how such a linguistic effect links to users' satisfaction and quality judgments of interaction.