Browsing by Subject "social signals"
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Epistemic Signals and Emoticons Affect Kudos
(IEEE, 2012)Our focus is on the interaction between emoticon use and epistemic hedges in the perception of individual contributions to discourse (and posters of those contributions) as deserving of kudos for their input. The communities ... -
Laughter and Topic Changes: Temporal Distribution and Information Flow
(IEEE, 2012)Laughter is an important component of social interaction that has attracted interest within conversational analysis. However, it is not universally accepted that laughs have a function in discourse structure. In this study ... -
Laughter and Topic Transition in Multiparty Conversation
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)This study explores laughter distribution around topic changes in multiparty conversations. The distribution of shared and solo laughter around topic changes was examined in corpora containing two types of spoken interaction; ... -
Time for laughter
(2014)Social signals are integral to conversational interaction and constitute a large part of the social dynamics of multiparty communication. Moreover, social signals may also have a function in discourse structure. We focus ...