Temporal Subordination and the English Perfect

No abstract

Yes/No Questions and Answers in the Map Task Corpus

We analyze question-answer pairs in a variety of ways, for three different kinds of yes/no questions. We find that the classification of yes/no questions described in (Carletta et al., 1995) for the Edinburgh map task corpus correlates well with whether a response will be a bare yes or no, a yes or no plus additional speech, or just speech without an overt yes or no. Correlation with responses described as “direct” or “indirect” is less good. We also find that the strength of a question’s expectation for a YES response correlates with the move type, the form of the response, and lexical yes choices; and that the move type correlates with the form of the question and with turn-taking schema

Observational Studies of a Trauma Care Team in Support of Interface Design

Introduction In designing the communication aspects of a decision-support system, developers must be aware of the way their potential users function, if they are to enable the system's decision support to realize its full potential. Interface here includes a variety of aspects of communication between the system and its users, such as who to direct questions to, and what linguistic form to use. In the fast-paced domain of trauma care, where a large group of people work together to carry out a care plan that has not been pre-determined, communication among team members is vital to the team's functioning, and patterns of communication are well-developed. The interface to a decision-support system for trauma care should incorporate any knowledge that can be gained about the way communication is accomplished among team members. Such studies can be undertaken before a computational system is implemented, and can help the designers locate potential interface problem

Yes/No Questions and Answers in the Map Task Corpus

We analyze question-answer pairs in a variety of ways, for three different kinds of yes/no questions. We find that the classification of yes/no questions described in (Carletta et al., 1995) for the Edinburgh map task corpus correlates well with whether a response will be a bare yes or no, a yes or no plus additional speech, or just speech without an overt yes or no. Correlation with responses described as "direct" or "indirect" is less good. We also find that the strength of a question's expectation for a YES response correlates with the move type, the form of the response, and lexical yes choices; and that the move type correlates with the form of the question and with turn-taking schema. Introduction While it may at first seem fairly straightforward that the answer to a yes/no question should be yes or no, or some variant of these terms, it has often been pointed out that acceptable responses may not contain such a term (e.g., (Stenstr om, 1984; Green and Carberry, 1992; Green a..