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Special Topic: Dialogue Act Taxonomies

As we discussed previously, Dialogue Acts represent the meaning of utterances or aspects of utterances. There have been many coding schemes proposed for analyzing human or human-computer dialogue.

Required Readings

  1. David R. Traum, 20 Questions for Dialogue Act Taxonomies, in Journal of Semantics, 17(1):7--30, 2000.
  2. Mark Core, James Allen Coding Dialogs with the DAMSL Annotation Scheme. AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action, 1997.
  3. Marilyn Walker and Rebecca Passonneau DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Human Language Technologies Conference
  4. 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, Towards an ISO standard for dialogue act annotation in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valletta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010.

Other Readings
  1. David R. Traum and Elizabeth A. Hinkelman, Conversation Acts in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue, In Computational Intelligence, 8(3):575--599, 1992.
  2. Carletta, J. C., Isard, A., Isard, S., Kowtko, J., Doherty-Sneddon, G., & Anderson, A. The Reliability of a Dialogue Structure Coding Scheme. Computational Linguistics, 23(1), 1997.
  3. Dan Jurafsky, Liz Shriberg, and Debra Biasca Switchboard SWBD-DAMSL Shallow-Discourse-Function Annotation Coders Manual, Draft 13 August 1997
  4. Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Johanna D. Moore and Richmond H. Thomason. An Empirical Investigation of Proposals in Collaborative Dialogues Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING- ACL) 1998.
  5. Elizabeth Shriberg, Raj Dhillon, Sonali Bhagat, Jeremy Ang, Hannah Carvey The ICSI Meeting Recorder Dialog Act (MRDA) Corpus Sigdial 2004.
  6. Tina Kluewer “I Like Your Shirt” - Dialogue Acts for Enabling Social Talk in Conversational Agents IVA 2011