Discourse Structure and Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Dialogue: the STAC Corpus

Nicholas Asher, Julie Hunter, Mathieu Morey, Benamara Farah, Stergos Afantenos


Abstract
This paper describes the STAC resource, a corpus of multi-party chats annotated for discourse structure in the style of SDRT (Asher and Lascarides, 2003; Lascarides and Asher, 2009). The main goal of the STAC project is to study the discourse structure of multi-party dialogues in order to understand the linguistic strategies adopted by interlocutors to achieve their conversational goals, especially when these goals are opposed. The STAC corpus is not only a rich source of data on strategic conversation, but also the first corpus that we are aware of that provides full discourse structures for multi-party dialogues. It has other remarkable features that make it an interesting resource for other topics: interleaved threads, creative language, and interactions between linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts.
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L16-1432
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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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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2721–2727
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Nicholas Asher, Julie Hunter, Mathieu Morey, Benamara Farah, and Stergos Afantenos. 2016. Discourse Structure and Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Dialogue: the STAC Corpus. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2721–2727, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Discourse Structure and Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Dialogue: the STAC Corpus (Asher et al., LREC 2016)
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