2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of method of evaluating and describing the multilayered agreement/disagreement structure in group decision making process

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21720157
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Principal Investigator	MIZUKAMI Etsuo 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構, ユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所・音声コミュニケーション研究室, 有期研究員 (30327316)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	談話研究 / 話し合いの構造 / 同意/不和の構造 / 賛否評価表現
Research Abstract	In this study, the "statement unit" for analyzing the group decision making process was designed, and the discussion corpus separated into the unit with some verbal/nonverbal information was constructed. Some facilitative statements and introductive expressions were classed as four groups of "meta-discussion tags", and the "agreement/disagreement evaluative expression tags" which represent the relationships between the speaker's statements and the discussion theme, the other's statements and assertions were also designed and labeled to the corpus. These labeling schemes might enable to structuralize and visualize a particular member's assertion transitions throughout the discussion, the arrangement of statements within each assertion and the relations among the statements and the assertions.