Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives

Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, François Mairesse, Robert Gaizauskas, Marilyn Walker, Jonathan Foster

Abstract
This paper describes a dialogue data collection experiment and resulting corpus for dialogues between a senior mobile journalist and a junior cub reporter back at the office. The purpose of the dialogue is for the mobile journalist to collect background information in preparation for an interview or on-the-site coverage of a breaking story. The cub reporter has access to text archives that contain such background information. A unique aspect of these dialogues is that they capture information-seeking behavior for an open-ended task against a large unstructured data source. Initial analyses of the corpus show that the experimental design leads to real-time, mixedinitiative, highly interactive dialogues with many interesting properties.
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L06-1482
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, François Mairesse, Robert Gaizauskas, Marilyn Walker, and Jonathan Foster. 2006. Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives (Barker et al., LREC 2006)
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