Laughter in French Spontaneous Conversational Dialogs

Brigitte Bigi, Roxane Bertrand


Abstract
This paper presents a quantitative description of laughter in height 1-hour French spontaneous conversations. The paper includes the raw figures for laughter as well as more details concerning inter-individual variability. It firstly describes to what extent the amount of laughter and their durations varies from speaker to speaker in all dialogs. In a second suite of analyses, this paper compares our corpus with previous analyzed corpora. In a final set of experiments, it presents some facts about overlapping laughs. This paper have quantified these all effects in free-style conversations, for the first time.
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L16-1344
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2168–2174
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1344
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Brigitte Bigi and Roxane Bertrand. 2016. Laughter in French Spontaneous Conversational Dialogs. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2168–2174, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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