Title :
Cognitive aspects of communicating information with conversational fillers in Slovak
Author_Institution :
Constantine the Philosopher Univ., Nitra, Slovakia
Abstract :
This paper reports on the form-function relationship of Slovak conversational fillers uh and mm in task-oriented dyadic spontaneous human-human conversations. The form is represented by two phonetic features: a discrete feature of nasality and a continuous feature of duration. The function is assessed on three dimensions critical for human-machine communicative systems: turn-taking management, (meta)cognitive state, and discourse and informational structure. We report that the two phonetic features facilitate partial disambiguation of communicative functions and discuss potential for applicability of our observations for human-machine interactive voice systems.
Keywords :
human computer interaction; speech processing; Slovak conversational fillers; cognitive aspects; cognitive state; discourse structure; duration continuous feature; form-function relationship; human-machine communicative systems; human-machine interactive voice systems; informational structure; nasality discrete feature; phonetic features; task-oriented dyadic spontaneous human-human conversations; turn-taking management; Floors; Games; Labeling; Man machine systems; Planning; Pragmatics; Speech; conversational fillers; human-machine interaction; turn-taking;
Conference_Titel :
Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1543-9
DOI :
10.1109/CogInfoCom.2013.6719255