TY - GEN
T1 - The distribution of discourse relations within and across turns in spontaneous conversation
AU - Cortez, S. MagalíLópez
AU - Jacobs, Cassandra L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Time pressure and topic negotiation may impose constraints on how people leverage discourse relations (DRs) in spontaneous conversational contexts. In this work, we adapt a system of DRs for written language to spontaneous dialogue using crowdsourced annotations from novice annotators. We then test whether discourse relations are used differently across several types of multi-utterance contexts. We compare the patterns of DR annotation within and across speakers and within and across turns. Ultimately, we find that different discourse contexts produce distinct distributions of discourse relations, with single-turn annotations creating the most uncertainty for annotators. Additionally, we find that the discourse relation annotations are of sufficient quality to predict from embeddings of discourse units.
AB - Time pressure and topic negotiation may impose constraints on how people leverage discourse relations (DRs) in spontaneous conversational contexts. In this work, we adapt a system of DRs for written language to spontaneous dialogue using crowdsourced annotations from novice annotators. We then test whether discourse relations are used differently across several types of multi-utterance contexts. We compare the patterns of DR annotation within and across speakers and within and across turns. Ultimately, we find that different discourse contexts produce distinct distributions of discourse relations, with single-turn annotations creating the most uncertainty for annotators. Additionally, we find that the discourse relation annotations are of sufficient quality to predict from embeddings of discourse units.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85168637129
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85168637129
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
SP - 156
EP - 162
BT - 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, CODI 2023 - Proceedings of the Workshop
A2 - Braud, Chloe
A2 - Hardmeier, Christian
A2 - Li, Junyi Jessy
A2 - Loaiciga, Sharid
A2 - Strube, Michael
A2 - Zeldes, Amir
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, CODI 2023
Y2 - 13 July 2023 through 14 July 2023
ER -