%0 Conference Proceedings %T Laughter in French Spontaneous Conversational Dialogs %A Bigi, Brigitte %A Bertrand, Roxane %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Choukri, Khalid %Y Declerck, Thierry %Y Goggi, Sara %Y Grobelnik, Marko %Y Maegaard, Bente %Y Mariani, Joseph %Y Mazo, Helene %Y Moreno, Asuncion %Y Odijk, Jan %Y Piperidis, Stelios %S Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16) %D 2016 %8 May %I European Language Resources Association (ELRA) %C Portorož, Slovenia %F bigi-bertrand-2016-laughter %X 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. %U https://aclanthology.org/L16-1344 %P 2168-2174