23.2306, Qs: Full Sentence Dialog Analysis

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Subject: 23.2306, Qs: Full Sentence Dialog Analysis

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:25:00
From: Eric Carley [ecarley at ksu.edu]
Subject: Full Sentence Dialog Analysis

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My research involves the analysis of full sentences and the linguistic 
structure within a team task.  Typically, context-free grammar analysis 
is applied at a sentence level, and what I need is a similar analysis at a 
dialog level (where each sentence can be treated as a complete 
token).

My problem is that I do not have the terminology that is used within 
linguistics so that I can find the correct type of research references for 
my work.  I am confident that such research has been performed, and I 
am hopeful that this listserv can guide me to the expert researchers in 
this field of research.  I have exhausted my resources on campus and I 
am just not making any progress.
An example of what I am looking at is as follows:

**The combination of sentences creates a communication pattern.
**A very simple example with the following definitions:  command (Cx), 
question (Qx), statement (Sx), response (Rx), where "x"is the source.  
So a C1 means that person #1 made a command and Q2 means that 
person #2 asked a question, etc.

C1Q2Q3S1C1S1  versus  C1Q2S1Q3C1S1
Part of my team research will be answering the following:  Are these 
the same communication?  Do these produce the same team results?

I hope this has made some sense and that perhaps you would know of 
specific linguistic researchers that are leading in this area of analysis.  I 
apologize for wasting anybody's time, as I am just very stuck.  
Additionally, I will need to discuss the detailed conditions where the 
sentences are further categorized. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics






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