Coding book:
http://www.isp.pitt.edu/~intgen/research-papers.html
Author: Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Liina Pylkkänen
Title: The COCONUT project: dialogue annotation manual (draft)

Number of annotators:
3 for development, but only 2 out of these 3 for the real annotation effort.
One annotator is linguist, the others are comutational linguists.

Number of annotated dialogues:
16 dialogues (about 800 utterances) have been annotated, of which 9 have been doubly annotated. All dialogue are in English.

Evaluation of scheme:
http://www.isp.pitt.edu/~intgen/research-papers.html

Underlying task:
Linguistic Motivation: Exploration how conversation correlates with the problem solving process where two participants are involved in.
Task: Buying furniture for the living and dining rooms of a house.

List of phenomena annotated

• Information level
• Task
• EvaluatePlan
• GameProcedure

• Task Management
• Strategize Action
• Communication Management
• Other Level
• Forward-Communication Function
• Statement
• Assert
• Reassert
• Other-Statement
• Influence-on-Listener
• Open-Option
• Directive
• Info-Request
• Action-Direction
• Influence-on-Speaker
• Offer
• Commit
• Other-forward-function
• ConventionalOpening
• ConventionalClosing
• ExplicitPerformative
• Exclamation
• Topic
• Topic proper (furniture items)
• needItem
• haveItem
• getItem
• elaborateItem
• otherItem
• Topic proper (money)
• budgetAmount
• budgetRemains
• costAccum
• Topic proper (points)
• pointAmount
• pointAccum
• Attitude
• Eval
• Relate
• SurfaceFeatures
• Word-Surface-Features
• Matrix
• Modal
• Subject
• Syn-Surface-Features
• Tense
• Mood
• Neg-Polarity
• Backward Communication Function
• Initiate
• Agreement
• Accept
• Accept-Part
• Maybe
• Reject-Part
• Reject
• Hold
• ClarificationRequest
• Understanding
• Signal-non-understanding
• Signal-understanding
• Acknowledge
• RepeatRephrase
• (Completion)
• CorrectMisspeaking
• CorrectAssumption
• Answer
• Information Relations
• Coreference / Set Relations
• Segment Tag
• Fragment

Mark-up language:
Variant of DAMSL

Existence of annotation tools:
Nota Bene (Nb) by Flammia

• manual
• implementation language: Tcl/Tk (Tcl Version 7.4 and Tk Version 4.0 or higher)

Contact person:
Barbara di Eugenio (dieugeni@cs.pitt.edu)

Last Modification: 27.8.1998 by Marion Klein