@InProceedings{rahimi-litman:2018:SIGdial,
  author    = {Rahimi, Zahra  and  Litman, Diane},
  title     = {Weighting Model Based on Group Dynamics to Measure Convergence in Multi-party Dialogue},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {385--390},
  abstract  = {This paper proposes a new weighting method for extending a dyad-level measure of convergence to multi-party dialogues by considering group dynamics instead of simply averaging. Experiments indicate the usefulness of the proposed weighted measure and also show that in general a proper weighting of the dyad-level measures performs better than non-weighted averaging in multiple tasks.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-5046}
}