Ching Wah Larry Ng


2022

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A Corpus of Simulated Counselling Sessions with Dialog Act Annotation
John Lee | Haley Fong | Lai Shuen Judy Wong | Chun Chung Mak | Chi Hin Yip | Ching Wah Larry Ng
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We present a corpus of simulated counselling sessions consisting of speech- and text-based dialogs in Cantonese. Consisting of 152K Chinese characters, the corpus labels the dialog act of both client and counsellor utterances, segments each dialog into stages, and identifies the forward and backward links in the dialog. We analyze the distribution of client and counsellor communicative intentions in the various stages, and discuss significant patterns of the dialog flow.