"By the way, do you like Spider Man?" -Towards A Social Planning Model for Rapport

Alafate Abulimiti (1) , Justine Cassell (1) , Jonathan Ginzburg (2)

1 CoML - Apprentissage machine et développement cognitif
2 LLF - UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

Interaction takes place not only on the propositional level but also on the social level. In this paper, we consider rapport as an important social phenomenon in interaction. Motivated by data from the tutoring domain, we hypothesize that (i) off-task episodes are triggered by a low level of rapport and (ii) such episodes are means of raising the level of rapport. We sketch a planning model that allows off-task episodes to be triggered by (low) rapport level, which we apply to two simple examples.

Domaines: Théorie et langage formel [cs.FL]

Alafate Abulimiti, Justine Cassell, Jonathan Ginzburg. "By the way, do you like Spider Man?" -Towards A Social Planning Model for Rapport. SemDial 2021 - 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Sep 2021, Potsdam / Virtual, Germany. ⟨hal-03536332⟩