Introduction

This repository contains several notebooks that were used for the project for the course Computational Dialog Modelling. It also contains several figures that were used in the report, and/or referred to from the report.

Code

main.ipynb includes code to extract the data from the CHILDES corpus, functions to calculate several turn-based metrics, and code to generate recurrence matrices and to compute recurrence rates. Additional measures can be found in main_additional_measures.ipynb. Both of these notebooks employ several helper functions located in the tools folder.

Code for semantic alignment can be found in notebook semantic_recurrence.ipynb. Functions used to prepare all corpus data for GLM fits can be found in another notebook, titled GLM_data.ipynb.

R code for the linear regressions testing change in complexity over time, and for the GLM testing effects of alignment on complexity is in linear_regressions.r and glm_models.r, respectively.

Figures

Generated plots can be found in the folder figures.

Authors

• Marianne de Heer Kloots
• Kayleigh Douglas
• Ard Snijders