Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
A preliminary model of centering in dialog
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
Non-verbal cues for discourse structure
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Detection of agreement vs. disagreement in meetings: training with unlabeled data
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
Social goals in conversational cooperation
SIGDIAL '00 Proceedings of the 1st SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 10
Modeling local coherence: an entity-based approach
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Contextually-mediated semantic similarity graphs for topic segmentation
TextGraphs-5 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Modeling socio-cultural phenomena in discourse
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Extracting social power relationships from natural language
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Recognizing authority in dialogue with an integer linear programming constrained model
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Detection of agreement and disagreement in broadcast conversations
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
Annotating social acts: authority claims and alignment moves in Wikipedia talk pages
LSM '11 Proceedings of the Workshop on Languages in Social Media
In you we follow: determining the group leader in dialogue
SBP'13 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction
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We posit that determining the social goals and intentions of dialogue participants is crucial for understanding discourse taking place on social media. In particular, we examine the social goals of being collegial and being adversarial. Through our early experimentation, we found that speech and dialogue acts are not able to capture the complexities and nuances of the social intentions of discourse participants. Therefore, we introduce a set of 9 social acts specifically designed to capture intentions related to being collegial and being adversarial. Social acts are pragmatic speech acts that signal a dialogue participant's social intentions. We annotate social acts in discourses communicated in English and Chinese taken from Wikipedia talk pages, public forums, and chat transcripts. Our results show that social acts can be reliably understood by annotators with a good level of inter-rater agreement.