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<h1>Conversational markers <span class="avoidbreak">of constructive discussions</span></h1>
<p>The interaction between participants in a problem-solving team discussion carries signals of how constructive the team will be. <br class="wideonly" />
Check out the <a href="#data">data</a> we collected, or take a look at the <a href="#paper">paper</a>.
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<li>by <a href="http://vene.ro/" class="name">Vlad Niculae</a> and </li>
<li><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/" class="name">Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil</a></li>
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<h2>Data</h2>
<p>For the moment, please e-mail the authors to request access to the dataset.</p>
<p>This dataset contains 1450 team discussions, collected from the
<a href="http://streetcrowd.us/start">StreetCrowd</a> geographical puzzle game.
Each team, consisting of 2 to 4 players, provides individual guesses, and then,
following a discussion, a single final guess.</p>
<p>Feature extraction code for the interaction features used
is available on <a href="https://github.com/CornellNLP/Cornell-Conversational-Analysis-Toolkit/tree/constructive">github</a>.</p>
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If you find our dataset useful, would like to be informed of
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improve it, we would love to hear from you.
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<h2>The paper</h2>
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<h3>Abstract</h3>
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Group discussions are essential for organizing every aspect of modern life, from faculty meetings to senate debates, from grant review panels to papal conclaves. While costly in terms of time and organization effort, group discussions are commonly seen as a way of reaching better decisions compared to solutions that do not require coordination between the individuals (e.g. voting)---through discussion, the sum becomes greater than the parts. However, this assumption is not irrefutable: anecdotal evidence of wasteful discussions abounds, and in our own experiments we find that over 30% of discussions are unproductive.
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We propose a framework for analyzing conversational dynamics in order to determine whether a given task-oriented discussion is worth having or not. We exploit conversational patterns reflecting the flow of ideas and the balance between the participants, as well as their linguistic choices. We apply this framework to conversations naturally occurring in an online collaborative world exploration game developed and deployed to support this research. Using this setting, we show that linguistic cues and conversational patterns extracted from the first 20 seconds of a team discussion are predictive of whether it will be a wasteful or a productive one.
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<h3>Download the <a href="niculae16constructive.pdf">PDF</a>
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<h3>Bibtex</h3>
<pre class="bibtex">@inproceedings{niculae16constructive,
author={Vlad Niculae and
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil},
title={{Conversational markers
of constructive discussions}},
booktitle={Proceedings of NAACL-HLT
(to appear)},
month=June,
year=2016
}</pre>
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