@InProceedings{dubuissonduplessis-clavel-landragin:2017:W17-55,
  author    = {Dubuisson Duplessis, Guillaume  and  Clavel, Chlo\'{e}  and  Landragin, Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric},
  title     = {Automatic Measures to Characterise Verbal Alignment in Human-Agent Interaction},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Saarbrücken, Germany},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {71--81},
  abstract  = {This work aims at characterising verbal alignment processes for improving
	virtual agent communicative capabilities. We propose computationally
	inexpensive measures of verbal alignment based on expression repetition in
	dyadic textual dialogues. Using these measures, we present a contrastive study
	between Human-Human and Human-Agent dialogues on a negotiation task. We exhibit
	quantitative differences in the strength and orientation of verbal alignment
	showing the ability of our approach to characterise important aspects of verbal
	alignment.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-5510}
}