A corpus-based study of interruptions in spoken dialogue

AGUSTÍN GRAVANO; JULIA HIRSCHBERG

Portland, OR

Conferencia; Interspeech 2012; 2012

International Speech Communication Association

We examine interruptions in a corpus of spontaneous task-oriented dialogue. We present evidence that interruptions occur at particular places in conversation. They are likely to occur during or after speech with certain acoustic/prosodic properties. We also examine the speech of interruptions themselves and find a number of significant differences between interrupting and non-interrupting turns.