Exploration of Human Repair Initiation in Task-oriented Dialogue: A Linguistic Feature-based Approach

Abstract

In daily conversations, people often encounter problems prompting conversational repair to enhance mutual understanding. By employing an automatic coreference solver, alongside examining repetition, we identify various linguistic features that distinguish turns when the addressee initiates repair from those when they do not. Our findings reveal distinct patterns that characterize the repair sequence and each type of repair initiation.

Publication
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue