The dialogue annotation and research tool

What is it about?

This article introduces a research environment that makes it possible to annotate and research transcribed spoken interaction from a variety of pragmatics-related angles, including the syntactic categories of units, their associated speech acts, illocutionary force indicating devices, topics, as well as polarity.

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Why is it important?

The tool described in the article is the first of its kind to make large-scale pragmatic annotation and analysis possible using corpus linguistics techniques.