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v1.0

This is a major update of the dialign software due to the update of the framework presented in the upcoming LRE journal article.

Update of the Framework

The framework has been significantly improved. dialign now provides a set of measures to characterise both:

  • the interactive verbal alignment process between dialogue participants, and
  • the self-repetition behaviour of each participant.

These measures allow the characterisation of the nature of these processes by addressing various informative aspects such as their variety, strength, complexity, stability, and orientation. In a nutshell:

  • variety: the variety of shared expressions or self-repetitions emerging during a dialogue relative to its length. It is directly related to the number of unique expressions in a lexicon.
  • strength: the strength of repetition of the (shared) lexical patterns, i.e., how much the patterns are reused.
  • complexity: the complexity indicates the variety of the types of lexical patterns. It is here featured by Shannon entropy measures. High entropy indicates the presence of a wide range of lexical patterns relative to their lengths in number of tokens (e.g., ranging from a single word to a full sentence). On the contrary, low entropy indicates the predominance of one type of lexical pattern.
  • extension and stability: The extension and stability of the (shared) lexical patterns are related to the size of the lexical patterns. The extension indicates the size of the lexical patterns. The longer it is, the more extended the lexical pattern is. Extension is directly linked to the stability of the processes since the more extended the patterns are, the more stable the processes are.
  • orientation: the orientation of the interactive alignment process, i.e., it indicates either a symmetry (both dialogue participants initiate and reuse the same number of shared lexical patterns), or an asymmetry (a dialogue participant initiates and/or reuses more shared lexical patterns).

New Application to Demonstrate Online Usage

A new dialign-online application is available to demonstrate the capabilities of the framework in an online usage in an interactive system.

Rewriting of Documentation

The documentation has been rewritten. It features:

Misc

  • Upgrade of the dependencies
  • Porting from scala 2.11 to scala 2.13

See also

CHANGELOG.md

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