@incollection{SchmidtWestpfahl2018, author = {Thomas Schmidt and Swantje Westpfahl}, title = {A study on gaps and syntactic boundaries in spoken interaction}, series = {Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2018). September 19-21, 2018 Vienna, Austria}, editor = {Adrien Barbaresi and Hanno Biber and Friedrich Neubarth and Rainer Osswald}, publisher = {Austrian academy of sciences}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-79281}, pages = {40 -- 49}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We present a study on gaps in spoken language interaction as a potential candidate for syntactic boundaries. On the basis of an online annotation experiment, we can show that there is an effect of gap duration and gap type on its likelihood of being a syntactic boundary. We discuss the potential of these findings for an automation of the segmentation process.}, language = {en} }