DRI Discourse Structure In Dialogue

Discourse Structure Group Coding Manual

• Nakatani and Traum Draft: Discourse Structure Coding Manual version 2/27/98

Other Discourse Structure Coding Schemes/Manuals

• Single Layer Schemes
  • Discourse Segments
    • Nakatani, Grosz, Ahn, Hirschberg, (1995)Instructions for Annotating Discourses Harvard TR-21-95
    • Flammia and Zue (1997) Learning the Structure of Mixed Initiative Dialogues Using a Corpus of annotated Conversations Eurospeech.
  • Rhetorical Relations
    • Marcu (1997)Extracts from PhD Dissertation
    • Moser, Moore. Glendening (1996)RDA coding instructions "instructions for Coding Explanations: Identifying segments, relations, and minimal units. (document dated July 26, 1996).
• Multiple-layer Schemes
  • HCRC/Maptask
    • Carletta, J. , Isard, A. , Isard, S. , Kowtko, J. , Doherty-Sneddon, G. (1996): HCRC dialogue structure coding manual. Technical Report HCRC/TR-82.
    • Carletta, J. , Isard, A. , Isard, S. , Kowtko, J. , Newlands, A. ,Doherty-Sneddon, G. , Anderson, A. (1997): The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme. Computational Linguistics, Volume 23, Pages 13-31 .
    • Isard, A. , Carletta, J. (1995): Transaction and action coding in the Map Task Corpus. Research Paper HCRC/RP-65.
  • Linkšping (Linda, LinLin)
    • Lars Ahrenberg, Nils DahlbŠck and Arne Jšnsson (1995): Coding Schemes for Studies of Natural Language Dialogue. in Working Notes from AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, 1995.
    • Arne Jšnsson (1995): Dialogue Actions for Natural Language Interfaces. in Proceedings of IJCAI-95, MontrŹal, Canada, 1995.
    • Nils DahlbŠck and Arne Jšnsson, (1998)A coding Manual for the Linkšping dialogue model Unpublished manuscript.
  • Rochester/TRAINS
    • Traum, D. R., and Hinkelman E. A. (1992): Conversation Acts in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue, Computational Intelligence, 8(3):575--599, 1992. Also available as University of Rochester TR 425.
    • Traum, D. R. (1996): Coding Schemes for Spoken Dialogue Structure. Unpublished manuscript.

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  Other Discourse Coding Schemes

  Manuals related to other DRI groups, but which might have bearing on Discourse Structure Issues Such as minimal units.
  • Dependent Reference
    • Becky Passonneau, Protocol for coding Discourse referential noun phrases and their antecdents revise Nov. 15, 1994. Has tidbits on finding minimal units based on text structure.
  • Dialogue Acts (Forward and Backward)
    • Allen, J. and Core, M. (1997):Coding Dialogs with the DAMSL Annotation Scheme. In working notes of the AAAI Fall 1997 Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines.
    • Allen, J. and Core, M. (1997): Draft of DAMSL: Dialog Act Markup in Several Layers.
    • Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan and Liina PylkkŠnen (1997): The COCONUT project: dialogue annotation manual, DRAFT. Unpublished manuscript.
    • Jurafsky, Shriberg, and Biasca (1997) Switchboard SWBD-DAMSL August

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  Last updated on February 20th 1998