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_id: '61176'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 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.
author:
- first_name: Yu
  full_name: Wang, Yu
  last_name: Wang
- first_name: Hendrik
  full_name: Buschmeier, Hendrik
  id: '76456'
  last_name: Buschmeier
  orcid: 0000-0002-9613-5713
citation:
  ama: 'Wang Y, Buschmeier H. Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence
    on German dialogue data. In: <i>Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural
    Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)</i>. ; 2024:75–80.'
  apa: Wang, Y., &#38; Buschmeier, H. (2024). Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic
    complexity convergence on German dialogue data. <i>Proceedings of the 20th Conference
    on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)</i>, 75–80.
  bibtex: '@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} }'
  chicago: Wang, Yu, and Hendrik Buschmeier. “Revisiting the Phenomenon of Syntactic
    Complexity Convergence on German Dialogue Data.” In <i>Proceedings of the 20th
    Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)</i>, 75–80. Vienna, Austria,
    2024.
  ieee: Y. Wang and H. Buschmeier, “Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity
    convergence on German dialogue data,” in <i>Proceedings of the 20th Conference
    on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)</i>, Vienna, Austria, 2024, pp.
    75–80.
  mla: Wang, Yu, and Hendrik Buschmeier. “Revisiting the Phenomenon of Syntactic Complexity
    Convergence on German Dialogue Data.” <i>Proceedings of the 20th Conference on
    Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)</i>, 2024, pp. 75–80.
  short: 'Y. Wang, H. Buschmeier, in: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural
    Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024, pp. 75–80.'
conference:
  end_date: 2024-09-12
  location: Vienna, Austria
  name: 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)
  start_date: 2024-09-11
date_created: 2025-09-11T07:08:24Z
date_updated: 2025-09-12T06:25:05Z
department:
- _id: '660'
extern: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://aclanthology.org/2024.konvens-main.8
oa: '1'
page: 75–80
place: Vienna, Austria
project:
- _id: '112'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP A02: Verstehensprozess einer Erklärung beobachten und auswerten'
publication: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS
  2024)
publication_status: published
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue
  data
type: conference
user_id: '76456'
year: '2024'
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