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SIGDIAL 2007, Antwerpen Measuring Adaptation Between Dialogs Svetlana Stoyancheva Amanda Stent SUNY, Stony Brook Adaptation in Dialog Change in the communication pattern over time Shortening of referential expressions Prosody Accent Hand-gestures Convergence on lexical and syntactic choices “lexical choice variability is high between conversations while it is relatively low within a conversation” (Brennan 1996) Examples of Lexical Variation “Teacher” “Instructor” “Professor” “Lecturer” “Dog” “Irish Setter” “Red Irish Setter” “Creature” Examples of Lexical Variation “Teacher” “Instructor” “Professor” “Lecturer” Examples of Syntactic Variation Dative/benefactive “He gave the book to Mary” “He gave Mary the book” Evidence of Adaptation in Dialog Evidence from controlled experiments: “lexical choice variability is high between conversations while it is relatively low withing a conversation” Referring expressions Syntactic choices (Bortfeld and Brennan 1997; Brennan and Clark 1996; Garrod and Anderson 1987) Causes of Adaptation Recency (Brown and Dell, 1987; Pickering and Garrod, 2004; Chartrand and Bargh, 1999). Partner adaptation (Brennan and Clark, 1996; Horton and Gerrig, 2002) These theories are competing but not necessarily contradicting Recency Words are activated during language production Also called: convergence, priming, alignment output/input coordination principle (Garrod and Andersons 1987) “people formulate their current utterance according to the same model and semantic rules used to interpret their partners most recent utterance” Partner Adaptation Based on the model of a partner Also called: entrainment, audience design Conceptual pact (Brennan) “a temporary agreement about how the referent is to be conceptualized”. New addressee: new conceptual pacts may not be the same as with previous addressees Corpus Studies On Recency Adaptation [Church 2000] measured lexical adaptation “within document” in corpora of written news [Dubey et.al