Dialogue-AMR Annotation Guidelines

Abstract

This report describes a schema that enriches Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) in order to provide a semantic representation for facilitating Natural Language Understanding in dialogue systems. We explore dialogue in several domains of human-robot interaction, where a conversational robot is engaged in collaborative tasks with a human partner. AMR offers a valuable level of abstraction of the propositional content of an utterance; however, it does not capture the illocutionary force or speakers intended contribution in the broader dialogue context (e.g., make a request or ask a question), nor does it capture tense or aspect. To address these limitations, we develop an inventory of speech acts suitable for our domain, and present Dialogue-AMR, an enhanced AMR that represents not only the content of an utterance, but the illocutionary force behind it, as well as tense and aspect.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2023
Accession Number
AD1194325

Entities

People

  • Austin Blodgett
  • Claire Bonial
  • Clare Voss
  • David R Traum
  • Lucia Donatelli
  • Mitchell Abrams
  • Taylor Hudson

Organizations

  • Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
  • Oak Ridge Associated Universities
  • Saarland University
  • Tufts University
  • United States Army
  • University of Southern California

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Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy