Prosody in feedback Issues on feedback possibly appropriate for human-computer interaction

In this paper some approaches on short feedback and the prosody in such feedback utterances are surveyed. The biggest problem in e.g. implementing the prosody of feedback is that so little research is made in this area. Prosody in itself is difficult to give specific parameters since it varies between speakers and language etc. The mapping between feedback utterances and the pragmatics they convey is also scarcely investigated. This paper is an attempt to make different research groups working in different fields of human-computer interaction (ASR, dialogue systems, etc) to see that they can benefit from each other’s work, and also from work made in the non-computational fields of linguistics and phonetics.