A Classification of Dialogue Actions in Tutorial Dialogue

Mark Buckley ; Magdalena Wolska

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AClassificationofDialogueActionsinTutorialDialogueMarkBuckley and MagdalenaWolskaDept. ofComputationalLinguisticsSaarlandUniversity66041Saarbruck¨ en,Germany{buckley|magda}@coli.uni sb.deAbstract that utterances may have in dialogue and their re lationshipstoeachother.In this paper we present a taxonomy of di Researchers in conversation and dialogue the alogue moves which describe the actions ory have proposed various general categorisa that students and tutors perform in tutorial tions of dialogue moves. DIT++ (Bunt, 2000)dialogue. Wearemotivatedbytheneedfor is an example of a comprehensive multidimen a categorisation of such actions in order to sional taxonomy of dialogue acts for informa develop computational models for tutorial tion dialogues based on DAMSL (Allen and Core,dialogue. As such, we build both on exist 1997),ageneral purposeextensibletaxonomypro ing work on dialogue move categorisation posed as a standard for dialogue annotation. Thefor tutorial as well as dialogue DAMSL dialogueacttaxonomycharacterisesutter-taxonomies for general dialogue. Our tax ances along four dimensions which correspond toonomy has been prepared by analysing a four levels of functions utterances may have. Thecorpusoftutorialdialoguesonmathemati forward looking function describes the utterance’scaltheoremproving. Wealsodetailanan effect on the following interaction, the backwardnotationexperimentinwhichweapplythe looking function, its relation to previous dialogue ...

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• Publié par: Islue
• Nombre de lectures: 33
• Langue: English

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73 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008),pages 73–80 Manchester, August 2008

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