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| Title | Two-level Annotation of Utterance-units in Japanese Dialogs: An Empirically Emerged Scheme |
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| Authors | Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Takehiko Maruyama, Kikuo Maekawa, Katsuya Takanashi, Mika Enomoto and Nao Yoshida |
| Abstract | In this paper, we propose a scheme for annotating utterance-level units inJapanese dialogs, which emerged from an analysis of the interrelationship amongfour schemes, i) inter-pausal units, ii) intonation units, iii) clause units,and iv) pragmatic units. The associations among the labels of these four unitswere illustrated by multiple correspondence analysis and hierarchical clusteranalysis. Based on these results, we prescribe utterance-unit identificationrules, which identify two sorts of utterance-units with differentgranularities: short and long utterance-units. Short utterance-units areidentified by acoustic and prosodic disjuncture, and they are considered toconstitute units of speaker's planning and hearer's understanding. Longutterance-units, on the other hand, are recognized by syntactic and pragmaticdisjuncture, and they are regarded as units of interaction. We explore somecharacteristics of these utterance-units, focusing particularly on unitduration and syntactic property, other participants' responses, and mismatchbetween the two-levels. We also discuss how our two-level utterance-units areuseful in analyzing cognitive and communicative aspects of spoken dialogs. |
| Language | Prosody |
| Topics | Dialogue, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Prosody |
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Two-level Annotation of Utterance-units in Japanese Dialogs: An Empirically Emerged Scheme |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DEN10.391, author = {Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Takehiko Maruyama, Kikuo Maekawa, Katsuya Takanashi, Mika Enomoto and Nao Yoshida}, title = {Two-level Annotation of Utterance-units in Japanese Dialogs: An Empirically Emerged Scheme}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |