MATE Deliverable D1.1
Supported Coding Schemes
DAMSL
(Discourse Representation Initiative)
Coding book:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu:80/research/trains/annotation
Authors: James Allen, Mark Core
Title: Draft of DAMSL: Dialog
Act Markup in Several Layers
Number of annotators:
At Rochester, only 2 of the
18 DAMSL annotated dialogues were coded by linguistics undergraduates.
The other 16 were coded by a computer science grad student and an undergraduate
in engineering.
Number of annotated dialogues:
18 (1037 turns, 1524 utterances)
- all in English
Evaluation of scheme:
-
Forward Looking Function
-
Statement: k
= 0.66
-
Influencing Addressee Future Action:
k
= 0.70
-
Committing Speaker Future Action:
k
= 0.15
-
Other Forward Functions: k
= 0.48
-
Backward Looking Function
-
Agreement: k
= 0.42
-
Understanding: k
= 0.57
-
Answer: k
= 0.76
-
Response to: k
= 0.77
Underlying task:
The annotation scheme has been
defined in order to provide a top-level structure for annotating
a range of dialogues for many different purposes.
List of phenomena annotated:
-
Communicative-Status (Records whether
the utterance is intelligeble and wheter it was succesfully completed)
-
Uninterpretable
-
Abandoned
-
Self-talk
-
Information Level (A characterization
of the semantic content of the utterance)
-
Task
-
Task-management
-
Communication-management
-
Other-level
-
Forward Looking Function (How the
current utterance constrains the future beliefs and actions of the participants,
and affects the discourse)
-
Statement
-
Assert
-
Reassert
-
Other-statement
-
Influencing-addressee-future-action
-
Open-option
-
Action-directive
-
Info-request
-
Committing-speaker-future-action
-
Conventional
-
Explicit-performative
-
Exclamation
-
Other-forward-function
-
Backward Looking Function (How the
current utterance relates to the previous discourse)
-
Agreement
-
Accept
-
Accept-part
-
Maybe
-
Reject-part
-
Reject
-
Hold
-
Understanding
-
Signal-non-understanding
-
Signal-understanding
-
Acknowledge
-
Repeat-rephrase
-
Completion
-
Correct-misspeaking
-
Answer
-
Information-relation
Example:
| utt1: |
u: mm <click okay
Reassert |
| utt2: |
four hours from Avon
to Bath Action-directive |
| utt3: |
and then I guess attach
that to the boxcar to Corning |
| utt4: |
it's four hours and |
| utt5: |
how long Info-request
Abandoned |
| utt6: |
it is two hours from
Bath to Corning Info-request |
Mark-up language:
DAMSL (a variant of SGML)
Existence of annotation tools:
dat
-
manual
-
implementation language: Perl 5.004_04, Perl Tk 402.003
Usability:
COCONUT, SWBD-DAMSL, CLARIFY
Contact person:
Mark G. Core (mcore@cs.rochester.edu)
Last Modification: 27.8.1998
by Marion Klein