Miriam Eckert


2025

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In Search of the Lost Arch in Dialogue: A Dependency Dialogue Acts Corpus for Multi-Party Dialogues
Jon Cai | Brendan King | Peyton Cameron | Susan Windisch Brown | Miriam Eckert | Dananjay Srinivas | George Arthur Baker | V Kate Everson | Martha Palmer | James Martin | Jeffrey Flanigan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

Understanding the structure of multi-party conversation and the intentions and dialogue acts of each speaker remains a significant challenge in NLP. While a number of corpora annotated using theoretical frameworks of dialogue have been proposed, these typically focus on either utterance-level labeling of speaker intent, missing wider context, or the rhetorical structure of a dialogue, losing fine-grained intents captured in dialogue acts. Recently, the Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA) framework has been proposed to for modeling both the fine-grained intents of each speaker and the structure of multi-party dialogues. However, there is not yet a corpus annotated with this framework available for the community to study. To address this gap, we introduce a new corpus of 33 dialogues and over 9,000 utterance units, densely annotated using the Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA) framework.Our dataset spans four genres of multi-party conversations from different modalities: (1) physics classroom discussions, (2) engineering classroom discussions, (3) board game interactions, and (4) written online game chat logs. Each session is doubly annotated and adjudicated to ensure high-quality labeling. We present a description of the dataset and annotation process, an analysis of speaker dynamics enabled by our annotation, and a baseline evaluation of LLMs as DDA parsers. We discuss the implications of this dataset understanding dynamics between speakers and for developing more controllable dialogue agents.

2010

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An Overview of the CRAFT Concept Annotation Guidelines
Michael Bada | Miriam Eckert | Martha Palmer | Lawrence Hunter
Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop

1999

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Resolving Discourse Deictic Anaphora in Dialogues
Miriam Eckert | Michael Strube
Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics