This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by
which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the …

We present a novel natural language generation system for spoken dialogue systems
capable of entraining (adapting) to users' way of speaking, providing contextually …

Previous work provided corpus evidence for structural priming for specific syntactic
constructions. The present paper extends these results by investigating priming effects …

One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue
systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises …

Lexical Alignment is a phenomenon often found in human-human conversations, where the
interlocutors converge during a conversation to use the same terms and phrases for the …

Speech entrainment is the tendency of interlocutors to become similar to each other during
spoken interaction. Entrainment is a natural component of the cognitive system underlying …

Alignment of communicative behaviour is an important feature of Human–Human interaction
that directly affects the collaboration and the social connection of conversational partners …

Behavioral convergence has been identified as one (largely subconscious) contributor to
successful conversations, while rapport is one of the central constructs that explains …