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20192023
most citedInvestigating the Relationship between Multi-Party Linguistic Entrainment, Team Characteristics, and the Perception of Team Social Outcomes

6 citations · 9 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.HC2023

Impact of Experiencing Misrecognition by Teachable Agents on Learning and Rapport

Yuya Asano, Diane Litman, Mingzhi Yu +4

While speech-enabled teachable agents have some advantages over typing-based ones, they are vulnerable to errors stemming from misrecognition by automatic speech recognition (ASR).…

cs.CL2022

Comparison of Lexical Alignment with a Teachable Robot in Human-Robot and Human-Human-Robot Interactions

Yuya Asano, Diane Litman, Mingzhi Yu +4

Speakers build rapport in the process of aligning conversational behaviors with each other. Rapport engendered with a teachable agent while instructing domain material has been sho…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

A Neural Network-Based Linguistic Similarity Measure for Entrainment in Conversations

Mingzhi Yu, Diane Litman, Shuang Ma +1

Linguistic entrainment is a phenomenon where people tend to mimic each other in conversation. The core instrument to quantify entrainment is a linguistic similarity measure between…

cs.CL2021

Leveraging Linguistic Coordination in Reranking N-Best Candidates For End-to-End Response Selection Using BERT

Mingzhi Yu, Diane Litman

Retrieval-based dialogue systems select the best response from many candidates. Although many state-of-the-art models have shown promising performance in dialogue response selectio…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Identifying Personality Traits Using Overlap Dynamics in Multiparty Dialogue

Mingzhi Yu, Emer Gilmartin, Diane Litman

Research on human spoken language has shown that speech plays an important role in identifying speaker personality traits. In this work, we propose an approach for identifying spea…

cs.CL2019★ 6 cited

Investigating the Relationship between Multi-Party Linguistic Entrainment, Team Characteristics, and the Perception of Team Social Outcomes

Mingzhi Yu, Diane Litman, Susannah Paletz

Multi-party linguistic entrainment refers to the phenomenon that speakers tend to speak more similarly during conversation. We first developed new measures of multi-party entrainme…