Inter-Animation between Utterances in Collaborative Chat Conversations

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Author(s): Traian Rebedea (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Stefan Trausan-Matu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)and Costin Chiru (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 31
Source title: Innovative Methods and Technologies for Electronic Discourse Analysis
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hwee Ling Lim (The Petroleum Institute-Abu Dhabi, UAE)and Fay Sudweeks (Murdoch University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4426-7.ch004

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Literacy and Language Studies / Media & Communications

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With the wide adoption of instant messaging, online discussion forums, blogs and social networks, online communication has shifted from narration to highly collaborative discussions with multiple authors and discussion threads. However, the theories and methodologies for analyzing this new type of discourse which is different from narration, but also from dialogue, have remained mostly the same. The authors propose a new method for the analysis of this type of discourse, designed especially for multi-party chat conversations where parallel discussion floors and threads exist at the same time. The theoretical underpinning of the inter-animation framework is the detection of links between utterances in order to build a conversation graph that may be used to discover the discussion threads. The framework has been used for analyzing chat conversations of students in Computer Science in order to assess the involvement of each student, the inter-animation of the conversation and the degree of collaborative discourse.

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