The TRAINS 93 Dialogues.
Peter A. Heeman, James F. Allen · 1995
This report describes a corpus of task-oriented dialogues set in the Trains domain. A user collaborates with a planning assistant to accomplish some task involving manufacturing and shipping goods in a railroad freight system. We include a description of the task, collection situation, and transcriptions conventions. The audio files, along with time-aligned word and phoneme transcriptions are available on CD-ROM from the Linguistic Data Consortium. Altogether, there are 98 dialogs included, collected using 20 different tasks and 34 different speakers. This amounts to six and a half hours of speech, about 5900 speaker turns, and 55000 transcribed words. Funding gratefully received from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, from NSF under Grant IRI-90-13160, and from ONR/DARPA under Grant N00014-92-J-1512. Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Overview of the Trains Project 1 3 Role of Dialogues in the Trains Project 3 4 Previous dialogue collections in the Trains Dom...