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title = "Developing a Corpus of Indirect Speech Act Schemas",
author = "Roque, Antonio and
Tsuetaki, Alexander and
Sarathy, Vasanth and
Scheutz, Matthias",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.28",
pages = "220--228",
abstract = "Resolving Indirect Speech Acts (ISAs), in which the intended meaning of an utterance is not identical to its literal meaning, is essential to enabling the participation of intelligent systems in peoples{'} everyday lives. Especially challenging are those cases in which the interpretation of such ISAs depends on context. To test a system{'}s ability to perform ISA resolution we need a corpus, but developing such a corpus is difficult, especialy given the contex-dependent requirement. This paper addresses the difficult problems of constructing a corpus of ISAs, taking inspiration from relevant work in using corpora for reasoning tasks. We present a formal representation of ISA Schemas required for such testing, including a measure of the difficulty of a particular schema. We develop an approach to authoring these schemas using corpus analysis and crowdsourcing, to maximize realism and minimize the amount of expert authoring needed. Finally, we describe several characteristics of collected data, and potential future work.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Developing a Corpus of Indirect Speech Act Schemas](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.28) (Roque et al., LREC 2020)
ACL
- Antonio Roque, Alexander Tsuetaki, Vasanth Sarathy, and Matthias Scheutz. 2020. Developing a Corpus of Indirect Speech Act Schemas. In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 220–228, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.