Dialogue act annotation for consulting dialogue corpus

This paper introduces a new corpus of consulting dialogues, which is designed for training a dialogue manager that can handle consulting dialogues through spontaneous interactions from the tagged dialogue corpus. We have collected 130 h of consulting dialogues in the tourist guidance domain. This paper outlines our taxonomy of dialogue act annotation that can describe two aspects of an utterances: the communicative function (speech act), and the semantic content of the utterance. We provide an overview of the Kyoto tour guide dialogue corpus and a preliminary analysis using the dialogue act tags.

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