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title = "A Multi-Layered Annotation Protocol for Polyadic Conversation: Structuring Interactional Data in the {G}a{MMA} Corpus",
author = "Dourado, Mark and
Lorenzen, Frej Spangsberg and
Udesen, Jesper and
Hassager, Henrik Gert and
Serafin, Stefania",
editor = "B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Lef{\`e}vre, Fabrice and
Asher, Nicholas and
Kim, Seokhwan and
Merlin, Teva",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
month = aug,
year = "2025",
address = "Avignon, France",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.sigdial-1.19/",
pages = "246--253",
abstract = "Computational models of dialogue often struggle to capture the nuanced structures of spontaneous conversation - specifically in polyadic, real-world settings. We introduce a multilayered annotation protocol designed for the GaMMA corpus, a Danish dataset of four-person conversations recorded in both quiet and noisy environments. The protocol targets key interactional phenomena: Turn Construction Units, backchannels, floor transfer attempts, and repair sequences. Each annotation layer is grounded in Conversation Analysis while remaining machine-actionable, enabling alignment with multimodal data such as gaze and motion. We report inter-annotator agreement metrics across annotation tiers and discuss how the protocol supports both fine-grained interaction analysis and the training of context-aware dialogue models."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Multi-Layered Annotation Protocol for Polyadic Conversation: Structuring Interactional Data in the GaMMA Corpus
%A Dourado, Mark
%A Lorenzen, Frej Spangsberg
%A Udesen, Jesper
%A Hassager, Henrik Gert
%A Serafin, Stefania
%Y Béchet, Frédéric
%Y Lefèvre, Fabrice
%Y Asher, Nicholas
%Y Kim, Seokhwan
%Y Merlin, Teva
%S Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2025
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Avignon, France
%F dourado-etal-2025-multi
%X Computational models of dialogue often struggle to capture the nuanced structures of spontaneous conversation - specifically in polyadic, real-world settings. We introduce a multilayered annotation protocol designed for the GaMMA corpus, a Danish dataset of four-person conversations recorded in both quiet and noisy environments. The protocol targets key interactional phenomena: Turn Construction Units, backchannels, floor transfer attempts, and repair sequences. Each annotation layer is grounded in Conversation Analysis while remaining machine-actionable, enabling alignment with multimodal data such as gaze and motion. We report inter-annotator agreement metrics across annotation tiers and discuss how the protocol supports both fine-grained interaction analysis and the training of context-aware dialogue models.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.sigdial-1.19/
%P 246-253
Markdown (Informal)
[A Multi-Layered Annotation Protocol for Polyadic Conversation: Structuring Interactional Data in the GaMMA Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2025.sigdial-1.19/) (Dourado et al., SIGDIAL 2025)
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