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Inter-Animation between Utterances in Collaborative Chat Conversations

Inter-Animation between Utterances in Collaborative Chat Conversations

Traian Rebedea, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Costin Chiru
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 31
ISBN13: 9781466644267|ISBN10: 1466644265|EISBN13: 9781466644274
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4426-7.ch004
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Rebedea, Traian, et al. "Inter-Animation between Utterances in Collaborative Chat Conversations." Innovative Methods and Technologies for Electronic Discourse Analysis, edited by Hwee Ling Lim and Fay Sudweeks, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 63-93. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4426-7.ch004

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Rebedea, T., Trausan-Matu, S., & Chiru, C. (2014). Inter-Animation between Utterances in Collaborative Chat Conversations. In H. Lim & F. Sudweeks (Eds.), Innovative Methods and Technologies for Electronic Discourse Analysis (pp. 63-93). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4426-7.ch004

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Rebedea, Traian, Stefan Trausan-Matu, and Costin Chiru. "Inter-Animation between Utterances in Collaborative Chat Conversations." In Innovative Methods and Technologies for Electronic Discourse Analysis, edited by Hwee Ling Lim and Fay Sudweeks, 63-93. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4426-7.ch004

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Abstract

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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