Bazinga! A Dataset for Multi-Party Dialogues Structuring

Paul Lerner, Juliette Bergoënd, Camille Guinaudeau, Hervé Bredin, Benjamin Maurice, Sharleyne Lefevre, Martin Bouteiller, Aman Berhe, Léo Galmant, Ruiqing Yin, Claude Barras

Abstract
We introduce a dataset built around a large collection of TV (and movie) series. Those are filled with challenging multi-party dialogues. Moreover, TV series come with a very active fan base that allows the collection of metadata and accelerates annotation. With 16 TV and movie series, Bazinga! amounts to 400+ hours of speech and 8M+ tokens, including 500K+ tokens annotated with the speaker, addressee, and entity linking information. Along with the dataset, we also provide a baseline for speaker diarization, punctuation restoration, and person entity recognition. The results demonstrate the difficulty of the tasks and of transfer learning from models trained on mono-speaker audio or written text, which is more widely available. This work is a step towards better multi-party dialogue structuring and understanding. Bazinga! is available at hf.co/bazinga. Because (a large) part of Bazinga! is only partially annotated, we also expect this dataset to foster research towards self- or weakly-supervised learning methods.
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2022.lrec-1.367
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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3434–3441
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Paul Lerner, Juliette Bergoënd, Camille Guinaudeau, Hervé Bredin, Benjamin Maurice, Sharleyne Lefevre, Martin Bouteiller, Aman Berhe, Léo Galmant, Ruiqing Yin, and Claude Barras. 2022. Bazinga! A Dataset for Multi-Party Dialogues Structuring. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3434–3441, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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