In Search of the Lost Arch in Dialogue: A Dependency Dialogue Acts Corpus for Multi-Party Dialogues (2025.findings-acl)
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Jon Cai, Brendan King, Peyton Cameron, Susan Windisch Brown, Miriam Eckert, Dananjay Srinivas, George Arthur Baker, V Kate Everson, Martha Palmer, James Martin, Jeffrey Flanigan
| Challenge: | Understanding speaker intentions remains a challenge in NLP . a number of corpora annotated using theoretical frameworks of dialogue focus on utterance-level labeling of speaker intent, missing wider context, or the rhetorical structure of a dialogue. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a corpus of 33 dialogues and over 9,000 utterance units using the Dependency Dialogue Acts framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus spans four genres of multi-party conversations from different modalities. |
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