The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme
Computational Linguistics
Disambiguating between generic and referential "you" in dialog
ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions
A framework for annotating information structure in discourse
CorpusAnno '05 Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky
Discourse annotation and semantic annotation in the GNOME corpus
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Cascaded lexicalised classifiers for second-person reference resolution
SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
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In conversational language, references to people (especially to the conversation participants, e.g., I, you, and we) are an essential part of many expressed meanings. In most conversational settings, however, many such expressions have numerous potential meanings, are frequently vague, and are highly dependent on social and situational context. This is a significant challenge to conversational language understanding systems --- one which has seen little attention in annotation studies. In this paper, we present a method for annotating verbal reference to people in conversational speech, with a focus on reference to conversation participants. Our goal is to provide a resource that tackles the issues of vagueness, ambiguity, and contextual dependency in a nuanced yet reliable way, with the ultimate aim of supporting work on summarization and information extraction for conversation.