RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Entrainment and Task Success in Team Conversations

现在，科学知识的创造者通常是团队，而不是个人。如何优化团队互动是一个跨越多个学科的热门话题。这项研究假设，语言夹带，或口语会话的语言属性的收敛，可以作为一个有效的和相对容易收集的测量，是预测团队成功。从开发团队创新干预措施的角度来看，组织可以使用夹带性不显眼地测量团队有效性，并通过培训进行干预，以帮助低夹带性的团队。类似的干预措施对监控和促进群体互动的对话代理也很有用。这项工作还可以支持为团队会议或课堂讨论等语料库开发浏览器或数据挖掘应用程序。迄今为止，大多数关于娱乐的研究都集中在对话组上，而不是团队中典型的多方对话。这项研究的技术目标是开发、验证和评估针对多方对话的语言娱乐的新措施。特别是，第一个研究目标是开发可使用语言技术计算的多方娱乐措施，并且这些措施都是由团队文献所激励和验证的。第二个目标是演示这些度量在与团队过程相关联和预测团队成功方面的效用。支持活动包括1)收集实验获得的语料库，其中团队合作完成他们交谈的任务，以及团队过程干预操纵可能的夹带，2)开发一套用于多方对话的夹带措施，3)使用标准的心理团队合作措施用于收敛效度，随机对话用于发散效度。4)探索性别构成和参与平等的团队因素如何影响团队卷入；5)评估测量卷入对预测团队和对话成功的效用。

Teams, rather than individuals, are now the usual generators of scientific knowledge. How to optimize team interactions is a passionately pursued topic across several disciplines. This research hypothesizes that linguistic entrainment, or the convergence of linguistic properties of spoken conversation, may serve as a valid and relatively easy-to-collect measure that is predictive of team success. From the perspective of developing interventions for team innovation, organizations could unobtrusively measure team effectiveness using entrainment, and intervene with training to aid teams with low entrainment. Similar interventions would be useful for conversational agents that monitor and facilitate group interactions. The work could also support the development of browsers or data mining applications for corpora such as team meetings or classroom discussions.To date, most studies of entrainment have focused on conversational dyads rather than the multi-party conversations typical of teams. The technical objective of this research is to develop, validate and evaluate new measures of linguistic entrainment tailored to multi-party conversations. In particular, the first research goal is to develop multi-party entrainment measures that are computable using language technologies, and that are both motivated and validated by the literature on teams. The second goal is to demonstrate the utility of these measures in being associated with team processes and predicting team success. The supporting activities include 1) collection of an experimentally-obtained corpus where teams collaborate on a task where they converse, and where a team process intervention manipulates likely entrainment, 2) development of a set of entrainment measures for multi-party dialogue, 3) use of standard psychological teamwork measures for convergent validity and random conversations for divergent validity, 4) exploration of how the team factors of gender composition and participation equality impact group entrainment, and 5) evaluation of the utility of measuring entrainment for predicting team and dialogue success.