Abstract
Dialogue act taxonomies, such as those of DAMSL, DiAML or the HCRC dialogue structure, can be incorporated into a larger meta-model by breaking down their labels into primitive functional features. Doing so enables the re-exploitation of annotated data for automatic dialogue act recognition tasks across taxonomies, i.e. it gives us the means to make a classifier learn from data annotated according to taxonomies different from the target taxonomy. We propose a meta-model covering several well-known taxonomies of dialogue acts, and we demonstrate its usefulness for the task of cross-taxonomy dialogue act recognition.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
i.e. It can’t discuss the planning of an action, such as the utterance “ok I’ll reboot my computer then”.
- 2.
If the taxonomy is “flat”, i.e. not hierarchical, all labels are treated as siblings.
- 3.
While not specified in the guidelines, Inform and in some cases Answer could arguably be considered a parent of all feedback labels.
- 4.
- 5.
- 6.
- 7.
References
Austin, J.L.: How to Do Things With Words. Oxford University Press, Cambridge (1975)
Traum, D.R., Hinkelman, E.A.: Conversation acts in task-oriented spoken dialogue. Comput. Intell. 8, 575–599 (1992)
Godfrey, J.J., Holliman, E.C., McDaniel, J.: SWITCHBOARD: telephone speech corpus for research and development. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-1992), vol. 1, San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 517–520. IEEE (1992)
Anderson, A.H., Bader, M., Bard, E.G., Boyle, E., Doherty, G., Garrod, S., Isard, S., Kowtko, J., McAllister, J., Miller, J.: The HCRC map task corpus. Lang. Speech 34, 351–366 (1991)
Shriberg, E., Dhillon, R., Bhagat, S., Ang, J., Carvey, H.: The ICSI meeting recorder dialog act (MRDA) corpus. Technical report, DTIC Document (2004)
Core, M., Allen, J.: Coding dialogs with the DAMSL annotation scheme. In: Working Notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 28–35 (1997)
Bunt, H., Petukhova, V., Malchanau, A., Fang, A., Wijnhoven, K.: The DialogBank. In: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, pp. 3151–3158 (2016)
Bunt, H., Alexandersson, J., Choe, J.W., Fang, A.C., Hasida, K., Petukhova, V., Popescu-Belis, A., Traum, D.R.: ISO 24617–2: a semantically-based standard for dialogue annotation. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 430–437 (2012)
Chowdhury, S.A., Stepanov, E.A., Riccardi, G.: Transfer of corpus-specific dialogue act annotation to ISO standard: is it worth it? In: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, pp. 132–135 (2016)
Petukhova, V., Malchanau, A., Bunt, H.: Interoperability of dialogue corpora through ISO 24617-2-based querying. In: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 4407–4414 (2014)
Traum, D.R.: 20 questions on dialogue act taxonomies. J. Semant. 17, 7–30 (2000)
Sadek, M.D.: Dialogue acts are rational plans. In: Proceedings of the ESCA/ETRW Workshop on The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue (VENACO II), Maratea, Italy, pp. 19–48 (1991)
Grosz, B.J., Sidner, C.L.: Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse. Comput. Linguist. 12, 175–204 (1986)
Georgeff, M., Pell, B., Pollack, M., Tambe, M., Wooldridge, M.: The belief-desire-intention model of agency. In: Müller, J.P., Rao, A.S., Singh, M.P. (eds.) ATAL 1998. LNCS, vol. 1555, pp. 1–10. Springer, Heidelberg (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49057-4_1
Stiles, W.B.: Verbal response modes and dimensions of interpersonal roles: a method of discourse analysis. J. Person. Soc. Psychol. 36, 693 (1978)
Jurafsky, D., Shriberg, E., Biasca, D.: Switchboard SWBD-DAMSL shallow-discourse-function annotation coders manual. Technical report (1997)
Carletta, J., Isard, A., Kowtko, J., Doherty-Sneddon, G.: HCRC dialogue structure coding manual. Technical report (1996)
Fang, A.C., Cao, J., Bunt, H., Liu, X.: The annotation of the Switchboard corpus with the new ISO standard for dialogue act analysis. In: Proceedings of the 8th Joint ISO-ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Pisa, Italy, p. 13 (2012)
Bunt, H., Fang, A.C., Liu, X., Cao, J., Petukhova, V.: Issues in the addition of ISO standard annotations to the Switchboard corpus. In: Proceedings of the 9th Joint ISO ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Potsdam, Germany, pp. 59–70 (2013)
Miller, G.A.: WordNet: a lexical database for English. Commun. ACM 38, 39–41 (1995)
Manning, C.D., Surdeanu, M., Bauer, J., Finkel, J.R., Bethard, S., McClosky, D.: The Stanford CoreNLP natural language processing toolkit. In: Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, Baltimore, MD, USA, pp. 55–60 (2014)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Salim, S., Hernandez, N., Morin, E. (2018). Dialogue Act Taxonomy Interoperability Using a Meta-model. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10761. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77113-7_24
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77113-7_24
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-77112-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-77113-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)