Multimodal Common Ground Annotation for Partial Information Collaborative Problem Solving
Yifan Zhu, Changsoo Jung, Kenneth Lai, Videep Venkatesha, Mariah Bradford, Jack Fitzgerald, Huma Jamil, Carine Graff, Sai Kiran Ganesh Kumar, Bruce Draper, Nathaniel Blanchard, James Pustejovsky, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Abstract
This project note describes challenges and procedures undertaken in annotating an audiovisual dataset capturing a multimodal situated collaborative construction task. In the task, all participants begin with different partial information, and must collaborate using speech, gesture, and action to arrive a solution that satisfies all individual pieces of private information. This rich data poses a number of annotation challenges, from small objects in a close space, to the implicit and multimodal fashion in which participants express agreement, disagreement, and beliefs. We discuss the data collection procedure, annotation schemas and tools, and future use cases.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.isa-1.9
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21)
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Düsseldorf, Germany
- Editor:
- Bunt Harry
- Venues:
- ISA | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 85–91
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/2025.isa-1.9/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Yifan Zhu, Changsoo Jung, Kenneth Lai, Videep Venkatesha, Mariah Bradford, Jack Fitzgerald, Huma Jamil, Carine Graff, Sai Kiran Ganesh Kumar, Bruce Draper, Nathaniel Blanchard, James Pustejovsky, and Nikhil Krishnaswamy. 2025. Multimodal Common Ground Annotation for Partial Information Collaborative Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21), pages 85–91, Düsseldorf, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Multimodal Common Ground Annotation for Partial Information Collaborative Problem Solving (Zhu et al., ISA 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/2025.isa-1.9.pdf