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| Title | MPC: A Multi-Party Chat Corpus for Modeling Social Phenomena in Discourse |
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| Authors | Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Aaron Broadwell, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Sarah Taylor and Nick Webb |
| Abstract | In this paper, we describe our experience with collecting and creating anannotated corpus of multi-party online conversations in a chat-roomenvironment. This effort is part of a larger project to develop computationalmodels of social phenomena such as agenda control, influence, and leadership inon-line interactions. Such models will help capturing the dialogue dynamicsthat are essential for developing, among others, realistic human-machinedialogue systems, including autonomous virtual chat agents. In this paper wedescribe data collection method used and the characteristics of the initialdataset of English chat. We have devised a multi-tiered collection process inwhich the subjects start from simple, free-flowing conversations and progresstowards more complex and structured interactions. In this paper, we report onthe first two stages of this process, which were recently completed. The third,large-scale collection effort is currently being conducted. All Englishdialogue has been annotated at four levels: communication links, dialogue acts,local topics and meso-topics. Some details of these annotations will bediscussed later in this paper, although a full description is impossible withinthe scope of this article. |
| Language | Acquisition |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Acquisition |
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MPC: A Multi-Party Chat Corpus for Modeling Social Phenomena in Discourse |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SHAIKH10.85, author = {Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Aaron Broadwell, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Sarah Taylor and Nick Webb}, title = {MPC: A Multi-Party Chat Corpus for Modeling Social Phenomena in Discourse}, 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} } |