Summary of the paper
| Title | Annotation of response tokens and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations |
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| Authors | Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Katsuya Takanashi and Nao Yoshida |
| Abstract | In this paper, we propose a new scheme for annotating response tokens (RTs) and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations. In the proposed scheme, RTs are first identified and classified according to their forms, and then sub-classified according to their sequential positions in the discourse. To deeply study the contexts in which RTs are used, the scheme also provides procedures for annotating triggering expressions, which are considered to trigger the listener's production of RTs. RTs are classified according to whether or not there is a particular object or proposition in the speaker's turn for which the listener shows a positive or aligned stance. Triggering expressions are then identified in the speaker's turn; they include surprising facts and other newsworthy things, opinions and assessments, focus of a response to a question or repair initiation, keywords in narratives, and embedded propositions quoted from other's statement or thought, which are to be agreed upon, assessed, or noticed. As an illustrative application of our scheme, we present a preliminary analysis on the distribution of the latency of the listener's response to the triggering expression, showing how it differs according to RT's forms and positions. |
| Topics | Dialogue, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing |
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Annotation of response tokens and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DEN12.605, author = {Yasuharu Den and Hanae Koiso and Katsuya Takanashi and Nao Yoshida}, title = {Annotation of response tokens and their triggering expressions in Japanese multi-party conversations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |