NDLI: Detecting Attempts at Humor in Multiparty Meetings

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Laskowski, K.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Systems designed for the automatic summarization of meetings have considered the propositional content of contributions by each speaker, but not the explicit techniques that speakers use to downgrade the perceived seriousness of those contributions. We analyze one such technique, namely attempts at humor. We find that speech spent on attempts at humor is rare by time but that it correlates strongly with laughter, which is more frequent. Contextual features describing the temporal and multiparticipant distribution of manually transcribed laughter yield error rates for the detection of attempts at humor which are 4 times lower than those obtained using oracle lexical information. Furthermore, we show that similar performance can be achieved by considering only the speaker's laughter, indicating that meeting participants explicitly signal their attempts at humor by laughing themselves. Finally, we present evidence which suggests that, on small time scales, the production of attempts at humor and their ratification via laughter often involves only two participants, belying the allegedly multiparty nature of the interaction.
Starting Page	9
Ending Page	16
File Size	242660
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424449620
DOI	10.1109/ICSC.2009.81
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-09-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Error analysis modeling Meetings Natural languages Humans Acoustic signal detection humor USA Councils Production Acoustic measurements Speech Collaborative work meetings laughter conversation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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