SPAACy

What is it about?

This article reports on a pilot project that aimed at creating a speech-act annotated training corpus for service dialogue systems. In order to achieve this aim, an annotation tool was developed. This tool converts text-based transcriptions into XML and applies different levels of markup to each dialogue, so that there remains as little post-editing to be done as possible. The project also aimed at developing a relatively generic mark-up scheme that may be applied to different domains without needing a large degree of adaptation. This article describes aspects of the grammar ‘controlling/governing’ the tool and how this grammar ‘interacts’ with the general strategies employed in the annotation.

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Why is it important?

The article describes the first tool ever devised to automatically add speech-act annotation to dialogue corpora.