Dependency Dialogue Acts -- Annotation Scheme and Case Study

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.12944
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Jon Z. Cai; Brendan King; Margaret Perkoff; Shiran Dudy; Jie Cao; Marie Grace; Natalia Wojarnik; Ananya Ganesh; James H. Martin; Martha Palmer; Marilyn Walker; Jeffrey Flanigan
• Keywords: FOS: Computer and information sciences; Computer Science - Computation and Language; Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; Computation and Language (cs.CL)

In this paper, we introduce Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA), a novel framework for capturing the structure of speaker-intentions in multi-party dialogues. DDA combines and adapts features from existing dialogue annotation frameworks, emphasizes multi-relational response dialogues addition to acts rhetorical relations. It represents functional, discourse, multi-threaded conversations. A few key distinguish frameworks such as SWBD-DAMSL ISO 24617-2 standard. First, prioritizes relational units dialog context, annotating both relations particular utterances. Second, embraces overloading dialogues, encouraging annotators specify multiple each unit. Lastly, places an emphasis on adequately how speaker is using full context plan organize their speech. With these features, highly expressive recall-oriented with regard conversation dynamics between speakers. what follows, present case studies structures multi-party,