Multimodal aspects of positive and negative responses in Polish task-oriented dialogues.
Zofia Malisz, 1. Centre for Speech and Language Processing, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2. Bielefeld University, Germany
Maciej Karpiński, 1. Centre for Speech and Language Processing, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2. Institute of Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
The paper reports on a multimodal analysis of short positive and negative responses in a corpus of Polish task-oriented dialogues. In the present task, responses most frequently functioned as realisations of affirmative and negative feedback and confirmation/disconfirmation. We describe prosodic and visual cues, namely intonation, head movement and smile that may distinguish between the main dialogue act functions in the studied corpus. Integrating our findings, we present a preliminary multimodal picture of this class of dialogue contributions in Polish.