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This chapter introduces a new corpus of consulting dialogues designed for training a dialogue manager that can handle consulting dialogues through spontaneous interactions from the tagged dialogue corpus. We collected more than 150 h of consulting dialogues in the tourist guidance domain. This chapter outlines our taxonomy of dialogue act (DA) annotation that can describe two aspects of an utterance: its communicative function (speech act (SA)), and its semantic content. We provide an overview of the Kyoto tour guide dialogue corpus and a preliminary analysis using the DA tags. We also show a result of a preliminary experiment for SA tagging by Support Vector Machines (SVMs). In addition, we describe a usage of our corpus for a spoken dialogue system that we are developing.
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The perplexity was calculated by a 10-fold cross validation of the 30 dialogues.
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We have already developed “AssisTra,” a prototype spoken dialogue system and released it as an iPhone application in June, 2011 (English version in March, 2012) to provide tourism information to tourists.
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Ohtake, K., Mizukami, E. (2017). NICT Kyoto Dialogue Corpus. In: Ide, N., Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Handbook of Linguistic Annotation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0881-2_48
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