Towards a Multi-dimensional Taxonomy of Stories in Dialogue

Kathryn J. Collins, David Traum


Abstract
In this paper, we present a taxonomy of stories told in dialogue. We based our scheme on prior work analyzing narrative structure and method of telling, relation to storyteller identity, as well as some categories particular to dialogue, such as how the story gets introduced. Our taxonomy currently has 5 major dimensions, with most having sub-dimensions - each dimension has an associated set of dimension-specific labels. We adapted an annotation tool for this taxonomy and have annotated portions of two different dialogue corpora, Switchboard and the Distress Analysis Interview Corpus. We present examples of some of the tags and concepts with stories from Switchboard, and some initial statistics of frequencies of the tags.
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L16-1018
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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118–124
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Kathryn J. Collins and David Traum. 2016. Towards a Multi-dimensional Taxonomy of Stories in Dialogue. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 118–124, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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