Replicability of Transaction and Action Coding in the Map Task Corpus

Empirical Methods in Discourse: Interpretation and Generation

Volume

Papers from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium

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Task-oriented dialogues can normally be divided into subdialogues, each of which reflects collaboration on a particular substep of the task, and which we call 'transactions'. We have devised a way of identifying transactions and their associated actions for HCRC Map Task dialogues, and we have tested the replicability of our coding scheme using naive subjects.