Annotation of response tokens and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations

Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Katsuya Takanashi, Nao Yoshida


Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new scheme for annotating response tokens (RTs) and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations. In the proposed scheme, RTs are first identified and classified according to their forms, and then sub-classified according to their sequential positions in the discourse. To deeply study the contexts in which RTs are used, the scheme also provides procedures for annotating triggering expressions, which are considered to trigger the listener's production of RTs. RTs are classified according to whether or not there is a particular object or proposition in the speaker's turn for which the listener shows a positive or aligned stance. Triggering expressions are then identified in the speaker's turn; they include surprising facts and other newsworthy things, opinions and assessments, focus of a response to a question or repair initiation, keywords in narratives, and embedded propositions quoted from other's statement or thought, which are to be agreed upon, assessed, or noticed. As an illustrative application of our scheme, we present a preliminary analysis on the distribution of the latency of the listener's response to the triggering expression, showing how it differs according to RT's forms and positions.
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L12-1345
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1332–1337
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/605_Paper.pdf
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Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Katsuya Takanashi, and Nao Yoshida. 2012. Annotation of response tokens and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1332–1337, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Annotation of response tokens and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations (Den et al., LREC 2012)
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