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The annotation makes use of Conversation Acts.
The annotation makes use of Conversation Acts . The emphasis of the annotation is on the way dialogue participants establish mutual understanding of what is being discussed. A Discourse Unit represents the aggregate of acts necessary for establishing a piece of information. It is an approach rooted in the cooperative nature of dialogue. There are four basic kinds of conversation acts:
Core speech acts : These are the traditional speech acts like Inform, Request, Promise, wh-questions etc.
Argumentation acts : They represent higher goals and are made up of Core speech acts. For example, an Inform core speech act may serve the argumentation act of summarising what was previously said.
Grounding acts : Are used for establishing information between the participants. They include categories like initiate, continue, acknowledge, repair etc.
Turn taking acts : They are keep-turn, release-turn and its sub-variant assign-turn, and take-turn. They define turn taking.
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