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Quantitative Analysis of Chat Participants’ Involvement

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The first experiments were performed with A.S.A.P. (Dascalu et al. 2008a, b) (see Table 9) whose purpose was to discover the most competent user in a chat using several analysis factors, starting with the simplest, such as the dimension of utterances, and ending with pragmatics issues such as speech acts (Austin 1962; Searle 1969; Trausan-Matu et al. 2004) and even social aspects of interaction between conversation participants (see 3.2 Social Network Analysis).

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Dascalu, M. (2014). Quantitative Analysis of Chat Participants’ Involvement. In: Analyzing Discourse and Text Complexity for Learning and Collaborating. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 534. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03419-5_5

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