Coding books:
a) feedbacks and turn management:

Authors: Joakim Nivre, Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén
Title: Interaction Management
 

Authors: Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Joakim Nivre, Staffan Larsson
Title: Own Communication Management (Swedish)

Number of annotators:
7, linguists (but often undergraduate students)

Number of annotated dialogues:
around 100 (Swedish)

Evaluations of scheme:
Reliability tests have been done but the results are not public available.

Underlying task:

• domain dependent (courtroom interaction)

• linguistically motivated  - distinguishing between
• social activity types
• speaker types
• subsequences
• medium
• written vs. spoken
• human partner vs. non-human partner
• face-to-face vs. mediated

• for feedbacks and turn management:
• grammatical categories
• structural operation (phonological, morphological, contextual)
• position (of structural units within the FBU/within a large utterance)
• function of FBUs

• for own communication management
• structure (pause, word, phrase, repetition, etc.)
• function (mainly choice vs. change)

• communicative acts in a courtroom interaction
• holistic communication act
• main expressive function
• main evocative function
• obligations
• relations on preceding contributions

A:  kommer du
     (Are you coming?)

B:  ja
     (Yes.)

A:  kan du [ 1 ta me en ] 1 penna
      (Can you take a pencil with you?)

B: [ 1 va sa du ] 1
     (What did you say?)

B:  okey // vill du ha en egen
     (All right, would you like to have your own one?)

A:  ja de vill ja
     (Yes, please!)
 

Mark-up language:
The mark-up language is not based on one of the standard mark-up languages as it was felt that they are lacking in expressive power. Instead it is based on logic as an annotation language.

Existence of annotation tools:
Tractor (developed at Göteborg University): works on iX-Window UNIX and Power Macs

• possibility of identifying structural and descriptive levels
• possibility of distinguishing between multi-valued and single valued scheme
• possibility of distinguishing between properties and relations
• fair reliability support
• support of automatic analysis
• allowance of hierarchical schemes
• allowance of easy inclusion of different, alternative schemes

Contact person:
Joakim Nivre (nivre@ling.gu.se)

Last Modification: 27.8.1998 by Marion Klein