Abstract
We present a large, free, French corpus of online written conversations extracted from the Ubuntu platform’s forums, mailing lists and IRC channels. The corpus is meant to support multi-modality and diachronic studies of online written conversations. We choose to build the corpus around a robust metadata model based upon strong principles, such as the “stand off” annotation principle. We detail the model, we explain how the data was collected and processed - in terms of meta-data, text and conversation - and we detail the corpus’contents through a series of meaningful statistics. A portion of the corpus - about 4,700 sentences from emails, forum posts and chat messages sent in November 2014 - is annotated in terms of dialogue acts and sentiment. We discuss how we adapted our dialogue act taxonomy from the DIT++ annotation scheme and how the data was annotated, before presenting our results as well as a brief qualitative analysis of the annotated data.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1280
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1777–1783
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1280
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nicolas Hernandez, Soufian Salim, and Elizaveta Loginova Clouet. 2016. Ubuntu-fr: A Large and Open Corpus for Multi-modal Analysis of Online Written Conversations. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1777–1783, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Ubuntu-fr: A Large and Open Corpus for Multi-modal Analysis of Online Written Conversations (Hernandez et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/L16-1280.pdf