“Mm, Wat?” Detecting Other-initiated Repair Requests in Dialogue (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Current conversational agents (CAs) do not recognize repair initiation, leading to breakdowns or disengagement. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal model to automatically detect repair initiation in Dutch dialogues by integrating linguistic and prosodic features grounded in Conversation Analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model integrates linguistic and prosodic features grounded in Conversation Analysis to detect repair initiation in Dutch dialogues. |
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