Replicability of Transaction and Action Coding in the Map Task Corpus
Amy Isard, Jean Carletta · 1995
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. Introduction Much work on dialogue has concentrated on dialogues arising from collaborative tasks. These dialogues are both easier to analyse than free-form conversations and more relevant to practical applications of humancomputer dialogue. At least from the participants' points of view, the most important issues are how to break the task into executable subtasks and what actions to perform and when. Comparatively little work has been done which relates participants' actions to what happens in the dialogue. During task-oriented dialogue, the participants form collaborative plans to reach a joint goal, transferring information b...