How much does nonverbal communication conform to entropy rate constancy?: A case study on listener gaze in interaction Wang, Yu Xu, Yang Skantze, Gabriel Buschmeier, Hendrik According to the Entropy Rate Constancy (ERC) principle, the information density of a text is approximately constant over its length. Whether this principle also applies to nonverbal communication signals is still under investigation. We perform empirical analyses of video-recorded dialogue data and investigate whether listener gaze, as an important nonverbal communication signal, adheres to the ERC principle. Results show (1) that the ERC principle holds for listener gaze; and (2) that the two linguistic factors syntactic complexity and turn transition potential are weakly correlated with local entropy of listener gaze. 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject doc-type:conferenceObject text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/55911 Wang Y, Xu Y, Skantze G, Buschmeier H. How much does nonverbal communication conform to entropy rate constancy?: A case study on listener gaze in interaction. In: <i>Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024</i>. ; 2024:3533–3545. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess