Articolo in rivista, 2003, ENG

A multi-level annotation meta-scheme for dialogue acts

Soria C., Pirrelli V.

CNR-ILC

Abstract - This article describes a new principled framework for comparison, design and standardization of annotation schemes for dialogue acts. Previous attempts at comparing existing schemes in order to identify a common core of generally agreed-upon dialogue acts share the assumption that tags belonging to different schemes and describing the same general phenomena can always be related through hypo- or hyperonymy relationships. Consequently, general-purpose schemes have often been the result of a merger of different tag sets. In this article, we show the extent to which comparability of different annotation schemes is prevented by the very limited tag inter-translatability. We thus describe an alternative approach to the comparison of dialogue act taxonomies based on a compositional analysis of tags according to independent classificatory dimensions. The framework takes a recognition-based approach to dialogue tagging and defines four independent taxonomies of tags, one for each orthogonal dimension of linguistic and contextual analysis assumed to have a bearing on identification of dialogue acts. We also show how the same framework can be used to design a generalpurpose annotation scheme which combines the features of generality and expressivity by exploiting a modular structure. The advantages and limitations of this proposal over other previous attempts are discussed and concretely exemplified.

Linguistica computazionale (Testo stamp.) 18-19 , pp. 925–952

Keywords

dialogue acts, annotation scheme, pragmatics

CNR authors

Pirrelli Vito, Soria Claudia

CNR institutes

ILC – Istituto di linguistica computazionale "Antonio Zampolli"

ID: 64470

Year: 2003

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2009-06-16 00:00:00.000

Last update: 2023-06-27 13:37:19.000

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