Sai Kiran Ganesh Kumar


2025

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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
Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21)

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.