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Modeling Interpersonal Linguistic Coordination in Conversations using Word Mover's Distance.

Md Nasir¹, Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula¹, Brian Baucom²

¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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This study introduces a new linguistic coordination measure using neural word embeddings. The metric effectively captures therapist empathy and couple relationship improvement in clinical settings.

Keywords:

Word Mover’s Distance empathy entrainment linguistic coordination outcome

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Computational linguistics
Psychology
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Linguistic coordination in conversations is linked to positive social outcomes.
Existing measures primarily focus on lexical coordination, neglecting syntactic and semantic aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a unified measure of linguistic coordination integrating lexical, syntactic, and semantic features.
To validate this novel measure in clinical psychology settings.

Main Methods:

Utilized Word Mover's Distance with word2vec embeddings to quantify linguistic dissimilarity across consecutive speaker turns.
Extended the Word Mover's Distance for measuring coordination in spoken dialogues.

Main Results:

The proposed measure positively correlated with therapist empathy in Motivational Interviewing.
Demonstrated a correlation with affective behaviors in Couples Therapy, outperforming existing metrics.
Observed a significant decrease in the measure over therapy for couples showing relationship improvement, indicating increased linguistic coordination.

Conclusions:

The novel linguistic coordination measure effectively captures interpersonal dynamics in therapeutic conversations.
This approach offers a more comprehensive understanding of conversational alignment and its therapeutic implications.