Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives
Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, François Mairesse, Robert Gaizauskas, Marilyn A. Walker, Jonathan Foster · 2006
This paper describes a dialogue data collection experiment and resulting corpus for dialogues between a senior mobile journalist and a junior cub reporter back at the office.The purpose of the dialogue is for the mobile journalist to collect background information in preparation for an interview or on-the-site coverage of a breaking story.The cub reporter has access to text archives that contain such background information.A unique aspect of these dialogues is that they capture information-seeking behavior for an open-ended task against a large unstructured data source.Initial analyses of the corpus shows that the experimental design leads to real-time, mixedinitiative, highly interactive dialogues with many interesting properties.