Abstract
Alignment of interlocutors is a well known psycholinguistic phenomenon of great relevance for dialogue systems in general and natural language generation in particular. In this chapter, we present the alignment-capable microplanner SPUD prime. Using a priming-based model of interactive alignment, it is flexible enough to model the alignment behaviour of human speakers to a high degree. We demonstrate that SPUD prime can account for lexical as well as syntactic alignment and present an evaluation on corpora of task-oriented dialogue that were collected in two experiments designed to investigate the alignment behaviour of humans in a controlled fashion. This will allow for further investigation of which parameters are important to model alignment and how the human–computer interaction changes when the computer aligns to its users.
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Buschmeier, H., Bergmann, K., Kopp, S. (2010). Modelling and Evaluation of Lexical and Syntactic Alignment with a Priming-Based Microplanner. In: Krahmer, E., Theune, M. (eds) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation. EACL ENLG 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5790. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15573-4_5
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