Route Communication in Dialogue: a Matter of Principles

The present study uses the dialogue paradigm to explore route communication. It revolves around the analysis of a corpus of route instructions produced in real-time interaction with the follower. It explores the variation in forming route instructions and the factors that contribute in it. The results show that visual co-presence influences the performance, conversation patterns and configuration of instructions. Most importantly, the results suggest an analogy between the choices of instructiongivers and the communicative actions of their partners.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGDIAL
• Authors: Theodora Koulouri, Stanislao Lauria
• Keywords: Dialogue Paradigm, Natural Language Processing, Route Communication, Route Instructions, SIGDIAL 2010