An empirical model of acknowledgment for spoken-language systems

  • Authors:
  • David G. Novick;Stephen Sutton

  • Affiliations:
  • Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, OR;Interactive Systems, Group Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, OR

  • Venue:
  • ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We refine and extend prior views of the description, purposes, and contexts-of-use of acknowledgment acts through empirical examination of the use of acknowledgments in task-based conversation. We distinguish three broad classes of acknowledgments (other←ackn, self←other←ackn, and self+ackn) and present a catalogue of 13 patterns within these classes that account for the specific uses of acknowledgment in the corpus.