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This paper presents an ongoing corpus annotation of speech acts in the domain of tourism, which falls within a wider project on multimodal question answering. An annotation scheme and set of guidelines are developed to mark information about parts of spoken utterances which require a response, distinguishing them from parts of utterances which do not. The corpus used for annotation consists of transcriptions of single-speaker utterances aimed at obtaining tourist information. Interannotator agreement is computed between two annotators to assess the reliability of the guidelines used to facilitate their task.
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Hasler, L. (2008). Spoken Requests for Tourist Information. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_12
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