There are two corpuses of meetings that have both been annotated with dialog acts, ICSI and AMI. Questions: How does multiparty dialog differ from the two-party dialog in SWBD? Is it any closer to the task oriented dialogs? What are the challenges of dialog act identification in multiparty dialogs? What other kinds of discourse research… Read More »

Work by Harry Bunt identified multiple dimensions to dialog and organized tag sets according to those dimensions. What are the dimensions? What aspects of dialog do they explain that the DAMSL set does not? How well do they work in practice (find someone that has used them) Bunt as led the ISO standard effort. How… Read More »

In this class, we’ll talk about “Dialog Acts”, starting with a paper that came out of a summer workshop at Johns Hopkins University in 1997, which became a standard in the industry. We’ll also read a paper of work that came out of this that considers multiple dimensions of dialog acts. We’ll also start looking… Read More »

Posts will contain the readings and other information for upcoming classes. The Zotero group (link on the right) contains papers relevant to the course. Those assigned for a class will be referenced in the post for that class. In the first class, in addition to going over the content and format of the course, we’ll… Read More »