Elements of a computational model for multi-party discourse: the turn-taking behavior of Supreme Court justices.

This work explores computational models of multi-party discourse, using transcripts from U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. The turn-taking behavior of participants is treated as a supervised sequence-labeling problem and modeled using first- and second-order conditional random fields (CRFs). We spe...

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Published in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Vol. 60; no. 8; pp. 1607 - 1616
Main Authors: Hawes T, Lin J, Resnik P
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2009
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