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I think such a language would need an artificial intelligence in place, or at least a system that can learn.
The problem is that humans don't know what they want.
Also, even writing in classical imperative language we still make logical errors. Imagine trying telling a non-intelligent software what he has to do.
What you're describing sounds less like programming and more like using an application.
Some problems you'd have to address in such a system:
- Repeatable results. The current source-code paradigm stores a list of instructions for the computer- in your 2-sided conversation, do you only store 1 half of the conversation? If so, that's not really any different from what we have. If you store both halves of the conversation, how would you go back and change things without disrupting the whole flow of the conversation thereafter?
- Who decides what the computer can respond with- eg, what if you want to use shortest-path algorithm that hasn't been pre-coded for you to select?
- How are you going to map this conversation onto the low-level language a computer really uses (which is still a sequential list of instructions)?
Hi! I'm searching for an advice on Conversation Analysis, which belongs in part to sociology and in part to linguistics (pragmatics or pragmalinguistics if you want to be exact). It can be also used in discourse analysis.
So, in principle, it is a way to annotate conversations in a formal, quite strict way. Any pauses, silences, tone rises, overlapping talk, aspiration etc. It is very granular.
For anyone who's never heard about it, here are some examples:
As you can see, conventions vary:
So, if you have had some experience with CA, have you used any specialised annotation software? What is it? Do you have a favourite? Or is it just an excel file?
And do you know of any examples of real annotated data (and could you share it)? I'm trying to get back to CA, but I feel that some examples that are not textbook examples would be super helpful
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I found some older reddit posts on that topic:
Lingustics 1
Linguistics 2
Linguistics 3
I would still love to see your experiences, especially that sociologists should have a bit different preferences
I hope this post is appropriate here. I posted in the r/linguistics question thread but it didn't gain much traction.
I am looking for something that will transcribe, but also potentially help me see some metrics like length of turns, time between turns, instances of overlap. More holistically I am looking at the interactional competence (IC) of students so other functions would be great too but I am not really aware of what kind of functionality there is in this kind of software.
One thing is that, I am a little wary of using online AI as this will likely complicate my ethics application as I am using samples from student dialogues. This doesn't rule out online AI based stuff but something that operates locally on the PC would probably be preferable.
Does anybody have any suggestions for software that might help me streamline this kind of conversation analysis? I am on a Mac BTW.
Thanks in advance
