June 8, 2006
Conference Paper

Retrospective Analysis of Communication Events: Understanding the Dynamics of Collaborative Multi-Party Discourse

Abstract

This research is aimed at understanding the dynamics of collaborative multi-party discourse across multiple communication modalities. Before we can truly make sig-nificant strides in devising collaborative communication systems, there is a need to understand how typical users utilize com-putationally supported communications mechanisms such as email, instant mes-saging, video conferencing, chat rooms, etc., both singularly and in conjunction with traditional means of communication such as face-to-face meetings, telephone calls and postal mail. Attempting to un-derstand an individual’s communications profile with access to only a single modal-ity is challenging at best and often futile. Here, we discuss the development of RACE – Retrospective Analysis of Com-munications Events – a test-bed prototype to investigate issues relating to multi-modal multi-party discourse.

Revised: October 20, 2008 | Published: June 8, 2006

Citation

Cowell A.J., J.N. Haack, and A.H. Andrew. 2006. Retrospective Analysis of Communication Events: Understanding the Dynamics of Collaborative Multi-Party Discourse. In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech (ACTS 2009), June 8, 2009, New York, NY, 62-70. East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania:Association for Computational Linguistics. PNNL-SA-49229.