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funded by the European Commission in the
LE Telematics Project LE 4-8370
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Background
Today's problems of dialogue annotation are of
a wide variety. The incompatibility of markup schemes used so far makes
it difficult to reuse both corpora and annotation tools. Also different
levels of annotation like prosody, morpho-syntax, coreference and
dialogue acts exist, but cross-level effects have been hardly examined.
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Objectives
MATE reviews the world-wide approaches, available
schemes, and tools on spoken dialogue annotation. It draws on their results
and uses them as background information. MATE builds its own workbench
of integrated tools to support annotation, evaluation, statistical analysis
and mapping between different formats. The workbench will be implemented
in JAVA. Furthermore MATE develops annotation markup standards based on
XML to ease the reuse of annotated corpora.
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Expected Results
MATE aims to be as less restrictive as possible.
This means in detail that multiple annotation levels are allowed and so
is coexistence of a multitude of coding schemes. Standardisation efforts
in the US, Europe and Japan are going to be integrated and therefore multilinguality
is required as well. MATE will be open-ended with respect to information
levels and within-level categories. In order to make the MATE standards
and workbench available to everyone and allow best possible collaboration
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Last Modification: 11 Oct 1999