MATE Deliverable D1.1
Supported Coding Schemes
Coconut
(The University of Pittsburgh
Intelligent Systems Program; The Natural Language Group at SRI International)
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
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Information level
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Task
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EvaluatePlan
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GameProcedure
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Task Management
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Communication Management
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Other Level
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Forward-Communication Function
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Statement
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Assert
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Reassert
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Other-Statement
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Influence-on-Listener
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Open-Option
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Directive
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Info-Request
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Action-Direction
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Influence-on-Speaker
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Other-forward-function
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ConventionalOpening
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ConventionalClosing
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ExplicitPerformative
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Exclamation
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Topic
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Topic proper (furniture items)
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needItem
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haveItem
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getItem
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elaborateItem
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otherItem
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Topic proper (money)
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budgetAmount
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budgetRemains
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costAccum
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Topic proper (points)
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Attitude
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SurfaceFeatures
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Word-Surface-Features
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Syn-Surface-Features
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Backward Communication Function
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Initiate
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Agreement
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Accept
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Accept-Part
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Maybe
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Reject-Part
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Reject
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Hold
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ClarificationRequest
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Understanding
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Signal-non-understanding
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Signal-understanding
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Acknowledge
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RepeatRephrase
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(Completion)
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CorrectMisspeaking
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CorrectAssumption
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Answer
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Information Relations
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Coreference / Set Relations
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Segment Tag
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Fragment
Example:
S1:
[31]: I have a green chair
[32]: I'll buy for 100 dollars.
[Action-Directive, Offer]
[33]: Okay?
S2:
[34]: That sounds good.
[Commit, Accept(32)]
Mark-up language:
Variant of DAMSL
Existence of annotation tools:
Nota
Bene (Nb) by Flammia
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manual
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implementation language: Tcl/Tk
(Tcl Version 7.4 and Tk Version 4.0 or higher)
Usability:
COCONUT system
Contact person:
Barbara di Eugenio (dieugeni@cs.pitt.edu)
Last Modification: 27.8.1998
by Marion Klein