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title = "Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue System",
author = "Yamashita, Sanae and
Mochizuki, Shota and
Kuma, Yuko and
Sakai, Ray and
Sasaki, Ayaka and
Higashinaka, Ryuichiro",
editor = "Riccardi, Giuseppe and
Mousavi, Seyed Mahed and
Torres, Maria Ines and
Yoshino, Koichiro and
Callejas, Zoraida and
Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and
Chen, Yun-Nung and
Bechet, Frederic and
Gustafson, Joakim and
Damnati, G{\'e}raldine and
Papangelis, Alex and
D{'}Haro, Luis Fernando and
Mendon{\c{c}}a, John and
Bernardi, Raffaella and
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and
Di Fabbrizio, Giuseppe {''}Pino{''} and
Kawahara, Tatsuya and
Alam, Firoj and
Tur, Gokhan and
Johnston, Michael",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology",
month = feb,
year = "2026",
address = "Trento, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.36/",
pages = "357--368",
abstract = "We aim to develop a caregiver spoken dialogue system for remote childcare services. As a first step toward this goal, this study investigates how interactions occur between children and caregivers. We collected {J}apanese child{--}caregiver dialogue data through a remote childcare service in which participants engaged in activities such as introductions, quizzes, and free conversations. The collected data were analyzed and compared with existing child{--}caregiver dialogue data from both acoustic and linguistic perspectives. The results showed that, acoustically, child{--}caregiver dialogues contained fewer overlapping utterances than adult dialogues. Linguistically, the distribution and transitions of utterance intentions differed across dialogue parts, reflecting the diverse structures of each activity. These findings provide useful insights for building future caregiver spoken dialogue systems, suggesting that a turn-based interaction structure may be sufficient and that dialogue control should be adapted to each part of the dialogue."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue System
%A Yamashita, Sanae
%A Mochizuki, Shota
%A Kuma, Yuko
%A Sakai, Ray
%A Sasaki, Ayaka
%A Higashinaka, Ryuichiro
%Y Riccardi, Giuseppe
%Y Mousavi, Seyed Mahed
%Y Torres, Maria Ines
%Y Yoshino, Koichiro
%Y Callejas, Zoraida
%Y Chowdhury, Shammur Absar
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Bechet, Frederic
%Y Gustafson, Joakim
%Y Damnati, Géraldine
%Y Papangelis, Alex
%Y D’Haro, Luis Fernando
%Y Mendonça, John
%Y Bernardi, Raffaella
%Y Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
%Y Di Fabbrizio, Giuseppe ”Pino”
%Y Kawahara, Tatsuya
%Y Alam, Firoj
%Y Tur, Gokhan
%Y Johnston, Michael
%S Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology
%D 2026
%8 February
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Trento, Italy
%F yamashita-etal-2026-analysis
%X We aim to develop a caregiver spoken dialogue system for remote childcare services. As a first step toward this goal, this study investigates how interactions occur between children and caregivers. We collected Japanese child–caregiver dialogue data through a remote childcare service in which participants engaged in activities such as introductions, quizzes, and free conversations. The collected data were analyzed and compared with existing child–caregiver dialogue data from both acoustic and linguistic perspectives. The results showed that, acoustically, child–caregiver dialogues contained fewer overlapping utterances than adult dialogues. Linguistically, the distribution and transitions of utterance intentions differed across dialogue parts, reflecting the diverse structures of each activity. These findings provide useful insights for building future caregiver spoken dialogue systems, suggesting that a turn-based interaction structure may be sufficient and that dialogue control should be adapted to each part of the dialogue.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.36/
%P 357-368
Markdown (Informal)
[Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue System](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.36/) (Yamashita et al., IWSDS 2026)
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