@inproceedings{52a95ca3a5cb41d6ab292406bbb604a0,
title = "Is It a Filler or a Pause? A Quantitative Analysis of Filled Pauses in Hebrew",
abstract = "In this study, we investigate quantitatively the use of Filled Pauses in Hebrew and compare them to the use of silence-based attributes and fluency-based attributes in task-oriented dialogues. Our aim is to explore whether the use of Filled Pauses in Hebrew supports either the filler-as-word hypothesis or the filler-as-pause hypothesis. We computed seven measures as independent variables, among them: Normalized rate of words, Filled Pauses rate, silent pauses rate, and articulation rate. Findings show that Filled Pauses occur twice as many as the most frequent words and on the other hand, Filled Pauses are far less frequent than the overall number of silent pauses. We did find that Filled Pauses are correlated with a sub-category of silent pauses. Our analysis supports that Filled Pauses used by Hebrew speakers are closer to the filler-as-pause hypothesis. Further, speakers would use FPs differently depending on their role in the Map Task dialogues.",
keywords = "Dialogues, Filled pauses, Fillers, Hebrew, Map task corpus, Silent pauses, Speaker{\textquoteright}s role",
author = "Vered Silber-Varod and M{\'a}ria G{\'o}sy and Anat Lerner",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2021 ; Conference date: 27-09-2021 Through 30-09-2021",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-87802-3_57",
language = "אנגלית",
isbn = "9783030878016",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "638--648",
editor = "Alexey Karpov and Rodmonga Potapova",
booktitle = "Speech and Computer - 23rd International Conference, SPECOM 2021, Proceedings",
address = "גרמניה",
}