Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data
Y. Wang, H. Buschmeier, in: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024, pp. 75–80.
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We revisit the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence in conversational interaction, originally found for English dialogue, which has theoretical implication for dialogical concepts such as mutual understanding. We use a modified metric to quantify syntactic complexity based on dependency parsing. The results show that syntactic complexity convergence can be statistically confirmed in one of three selected German datasets that were analysed. Given that the dataset which shows such convergence is much larger than the other two selected datasets, the empirical results indicate a certain degree of linguistic generality of syntactic complexity convergence in conversational interaction. We also found a different type of syntactic complexity convergence in one of the datasets while further investigation is still necessary.
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Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)
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20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)
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Vienna, Austria
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2024-09-11 – 2024-09-12
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Wang Y, Buschmeier H. Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data. In: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024). ; 2024:75–80.
Wang, Y., & Buschmeier, H. (2024). Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data. Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), 75–80.
@inproceedings{Wang_Buschmeier_2024, place={Vienna, Austria}, title={Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)}, author={Wang, Yu and Buschmeier, Hendrik}, year={2024}, pages={75–80} }
Wang, Yu, and Hendrik Buschmeier. “Revisiting the Phenomenon of Syntactic Complexity Convergence on German Dialogue Data.” In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), 75–80. Vienna, Austria, 2024.
Y. Wang and H. Buschmeier, “Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data,” in Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024, pp. 75–80.
Wang, Yu, and Hendrik Buschmeier. “Revisiting the Phenomenon of Syntactic Complexity Convergence on German Dialogue Data.” Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), 2024, pp. 75–80.
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