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| Title | Towards an ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation |
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| Authors | Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Choe, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Laurent Romary, Claudia Soria and David Traum |
| Abstract | This paper describes an ISO project which aims at developing a standard for annotating spoken and multimodal dialogue with semantic information concerning the communicative functions of utterances, the kind of semantic content they address, and their relations with what was said and done earlier in the dialogue. The project, ISO 24617-2 "Semantic annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue acts", is currently at DIS stage.The proposed annotation schema distinguishes 9 orthogonal dimensions, allowing each functional segment in dialogue to have a function in each of these dimensions, thus accounting for the multifunctionality that utterances in dialogue often have. A number of core communicative functions is defined in the form of ISO data categories, available at http://semantic-annotation.uvt.nl/dialogue-acts/iso-datcats.pdf; they are divided into "dimension-specific" functions, which can be used only in aparticular dimension, such as Turn Accept in the Turn Management dimension, and "general-purpose" functions, which can be used in any dimension, such as Informand Request. An XML-based annotation language, "DiAML" is defined, with an abstract syntax, a semantics, and a concrete syntax. |
| Language | Semantics |
| Topics | Dialogue, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Semantics |
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Towards an ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{BUNT10.560, author = {Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Choe, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Laurent Romary, Claudia Soria and David Traum}, title = {Towards an ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation}, 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} } |