The ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation, Second Edition

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Emer Gilmartin, Catherine Pelachaud, Alex Fang, Simon Keizer, Laurent Prévot


Abstract
ISO standard 24617-2 for dialogue act annotation, established in 2012, has in the past few years been used both in corpus annotation and in the design of components for spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. This has brought some inaccuracies and undesirbale limitations of the standard to light, which are addressed in a proposed second edition. This second edition allows a more accurate annotation of dependence relations and rhetorical relations in dialogue. Following the ISO 24617-4 principles of semantic annotation, and borrowing ideas from EmotionML, a triple-layered plug-in mechanism is introduced which allows dialogue act descriptions to be enriched with information about their semantic content, about accompanying emotions, and other information, and allows the annotation scheme to be customised by adding application-specific dialogue act types.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.69
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
549–558
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.69
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Cite (ACL):
Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Emer Gilmartin, Catherine Pelachaud, Alex Fang, Simon Keizer, and Laurent Prévot. 2020. The ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation, Second Edition. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 549–558, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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The ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation, Second Edition (Bunt et al., LREC 2020)
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