Dialogue Act Annotation for Statistically Managed Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author

Ohtake, Kiyonori ; Misu, Teruhisa ; Hori, Chiori ; Kashioka, Hideki ; Nakamura, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Adv. Telecommun. Res. Inst. Int. (ATR), Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Keihannna Science City

fYear

2008

fDate

15-16 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

416

Lastpage

422

Abstract

This paper uses the Kyoto tour guide dialogue corpus and its annotations to construct a dialogue management system by employing a statistical approach. We defined dialogue act (DA) tags to express a user´s intention. Two kinds of tag sets can be used to annotate the corpus. One denotes a communicative function (speech act), and the other denotes the semantic content of an utterance. We have annotated the speech act tags in our corpus using several annotators. We evaluate the annotation results by measuring the agreement ratios between the annotators.

Keywords

interactive systems; statistical analysis; Kyoto tour guide dialogue corpus; dialogue act annotation; dialogue act tags; dialogue management system; speech act tags; statistically managed spoken dialogue systems; utterance semantic content; Cities and towns; Communications technology; Decision making; Man machine systems; Robustness; Speech recognition; Technology management; Training data; corpus; dialogue act; spoken dialogue system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Communication, 2008. ISUC '08. Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3433-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISUC.2008.52

Filename

4724495