Abstract
We discuss a set of tools for annotating a complex hierarchical and linguistic structure of tutorial dialogue based on the NITE XML Toolkit (NXT) (Carletta et al., 2003). The NXT API supports multi-layered stand-off data annotation and synchronisation with timed and speech data. Using NXT, we built a set of extensible tools for detailed structure annotation of typed tutorial dialogue, collected from a tutor and student typing via a chat interface. There are several corpora of tutoring done with such chat-style communication techniques (Shah et al., 2002; Jordan and Siler, 2002), however, our annotation presents a special problem because of its detailed hierarchical structure. We applied our annotation methodology to annotating corpora in two different tutoring domains: basic electricity and electronics, and symbolic differentiation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP and XML: Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing |
| Place of Publication | Stroudsburg, PA, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Pages | 57-60 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2006 |
| Event | 5th Workshop on NLP and XML: Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing - Trento, Italy Duration: 4 Apr 2006 → 4 Apr 2006 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th Workshop on NLP and XML: Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Trento |
| Period | 4/04/06 → 4/04/06 |