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    "pk": 21465,
    "title": "Pink noise in speakers' semantic synchrony dynamics as a metric of conversation quality",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Dyadic social interaction is a complex coordination task involving a large number of interconnected variables. Previous research has shown that metastability -- persistence for an extended,  but impermanent, period of time in a non-stable state of a system -- can be a useful lens for understanding what makes an interaction successful. However, this framework has thus far only been applied to para-conversational signals like heart rate and prosody -- not to the semantic content of a conversation. Here, we present pink noise analysis of semantic trajectories as a metric for conversational success and apply this technique to a large open conversation dataset. Our results demonstrate that pink noise in a conversation predicts a host of variables representing participants' perception of  conversation quality. These results have implications for optimizing a whole host of difficult dyadic conversations -- like those between political partisans -- and human-computer interactions, with applications for improving large language models' adaptability.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Dynamical Systems; Interactive behavior; Natural Language Processing; Situated cognition; Social cognition"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3q474016",
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        {
            "first_name": "Kathryn",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "O'Nell",
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            "institution": "Dartmouth College",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Emily",
            "middle_name": "S.",
            "last_name": "Finn",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Dartmouth College",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2024-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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