@inproceedings{L16-1344,
 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.
},
 address = {Portorož, Slovenia},
 author = {Brigitte Bigi and Roxane Bertrand},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
 month = {May},
 pages = {2168--2174},
 publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
 title = {Laughter in French Spontaneous Conversational Dialogs},
 url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1344},
 year = {2016}
}