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This paper describes the DAMSL annotation schemefor communicative acts in dialog. The scheme hasthree layers: Forward Communicative Functions,Backward Communicative Functions, and UtteranceFeatures. Each layer allows multiple communicativefunctions of an utterance to be labeled. The ForwardCommunicative Functions consist of a taxonomy ina similar style as the actions of traditional speech acttheory. The Backward Communicative Functions indicate how the current utterance relates to the previousdialog, such as accepting a proposal, confirming understanding, or answering a question. The Utterance Features include information about an utterance's formand content, such as whether an utterance concernsthe communication process itself or deals with thesubject at hand. The kappa inter-annotator reliabilityscores for the first test of DAMSL with human annotators show promise, but are on average 0.15 lower thanthe accepted kappa scores for such annotations. However, the slight revisions to DAMSL discussed hereshould increase accuracy on the next set of tests andproduce a reliable, flexible, and comprehensive utterance annotation scheme.

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Author

Core, M. & Allen, J. J. B.

Publisher

Cambridge, MA

Published

1997

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language