Bottom-up discovery of structure and variation in response tokens (‘backchannels’) across diverse languages

2022/09/16 by Andreas Liesenfeld, Mark Dingemanse · 1 voice
Computer Science · Psychology · #Digital Communication and Language #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Speech and dialogue systems

paper · doi:10.21437/interspeech.2022-11288

openalex publication_date 2022/09/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

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Citations

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Discussions

• Come find us online this week at #interspeech2022 if you're into conversation, typology, speech, UMAP or all of the above! Full paper: http://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-11288. Our slot is Mon-P [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]