Automatically Measuring Lexical and Acoustic/Prosodic Convergence in Tutorial Dialog Corpora

Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-60

  Ward, Arthur ^a   Litman, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY; ORDERED DATA; PROSODICS; TUTORING DIALOGUES;

EID: 84858993570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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