Lexical and Prosodic Indicators of Importance in Spoken Dialog

Authors

Nigel G. Ward, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Karen A. Richart-Ruiz, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

7-23-2013

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-13-41

Abstract

This technical report complements the paper, Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog (Ward and Richart-Ruiz, 2013), providing additional evidence for the claims, additional findings, and more analysis. In particular, we report more on inter-annotator disagreement, on words that correlate with importance, on prosodic features and patterns that correlate with importance, and on how our predictive model of importance might be improved.