Dependencies of discourse structure on the modality of communication: telephone vs. teletype

Authors:
Philip R. Cohen;Scott Fertig;Kathy Starr
Affiliations:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR;Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA;Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Venue:
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1982

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Abstract

A desirable long-range goal in building future speech understanding systems would be to accept the kind of language people spontaneously produce. We show that people do not speak to one another in the same way they converse in typewritten language. Spoken language is finer-grained and more indirect. The differences are striking and pervasive. Current techniques for engaging in typewritten dialogue will need to be extended to accomodate the structure of spoken language.