Papers by Harry Bunt
Quantification Annotation in ISO 24617-12, Second Draft (2022.lrec-1)
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Harry Bunt, Maxime Amblard, Johan Bos, Karën Fort, Bruno Guillaume, Philippe de Groote, Chuyuan Li, Pierre Ludmann, Michel Musiol, Siyana Pavlova, Guy Perrier, Sylvain Pogodalla
| Challenge: | a project aimed at establishing an interoperable annotation schema for quantification phenomena was relaunched in early 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic . |
| Approach: | This paper describes the continuation of a project that aims at establishing an interoperable annotation schema for quantification phenomena as part of the ISO suite of semantic annotation standards. |
| Outcome: | The proposed schema is part of the ISO suite of semantic annotation standards known as the Semantic Annotation Framework (SemAF). |
Towards an ISO Standard for the Annotation of Quantification (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Quantification occurs in every sentence of written text or spoken discourse because application of a predicate to one or more sets of objects gives rise to questions of relative scope, of cardinality, and of distribution (or 'distributivity') of the predicacy over the sets of arguments. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach to the annotation of quantification that is being developed as part of an effort by the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO to define interoperable semantic annotation schemes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed scheme includes both count and mass NP quantifiers, as well as NPs with syntactically and semantically complex heads with internal quantification and scoping structures. |
ISO 24617-12: A New Standard for Semantic Annotation (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | ISO 24617-12 is a proposed new standard 1 for the annotation of quantification phenomena in natural language. |
| Approach: | This paper proposes an annotation scheme for quantification phenomena in natural language as part of the ISO Semantic Annotation Framework (ISO 24617) it combines ideas from the theory of generalised quantifiers, from neo-Davidsonian event semantics, and from Discourse Representation Theory. |
| Outcome: | The proposed standard 1 is an annotation scheme for quantification phenomena in natural language. |
The ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation, Second Edition (2020.lrec-1)
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Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Emer Gilmartin, Catherine Pelachaud, Alex Fang, Simon Keizer, Laurent Prévot
| Challenge: | ISO standard 24617-2 for dialogue act annotation has been used in corpus annotation and in the design of components for spoken and multimodal interactive systems. |
| Approach: | ISO standard 24617-2 for dialogue act annotation is proposed for a second edition . this second edition allows a more accurate annotation of dependence relations and rhetorical relations in dialogue. |
| Outcome: | The proposed second edition of ISO 24617-2 for dialogue act annotation addresses some inaccuracies and undesirable limitations. |
Towards Continuous Dialogue Corpus Creation: writing to corpus and generating from it (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to create dialogue corpora annotated with interoperable semantic information are based on ISO standard data models and tools. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus as a shared repository for analysis and modelling of interactive dialogue behaviour and for implementation, integration and evaluation of dialogue system components. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is applied to the design of two multimodal interactive applications - the Virtual Negotiation Coach and the Virtual Debate Coach. |