Rare dialogue acts common in oncology consultations

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Abstract

Dialogue Acts (DAs) which explicitly ensure mutual understanding are frequent in dialogues between cancer patients and health professionals. We present examples, and argue that this arises from the health- critical nature of these dialogues.

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Wood, M. M. G., Craggs, R., Fletcher, I., & Maguire, P. (2002). Rare dialogue acts common in oncology consultations. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2002 Workshop - 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 196–200). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1118121.1118146

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