1997 Summer Workshop at CLSP/JHU
Discourse Language Modeling Project

Becky Bates (Boston University)
Noah Coccaro (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado, Boulder),
Rachel Martin (Johns Hopkins University)
Marie Meteer (BBN)
Klaus Ries(CMU/Karlsruhe)
Liz Shriberg (SRI)
Andreas Stolcke (SRI)
Paul Taylor (University of Edinburgh)
Carol Van Ess-Dykema (DoD)

Stolcke, Andreas, Klaus Ries, Noah Coccaro, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rebecca Bates, Daniel Jurafsky, Paul Taylor, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema. 2000. Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech. Computational Linguistics 26:3, 339-371 (PDF).

Shriberg, Elizabeth, Rebecca Bates, Paul Taylor, Andreas Stolcke, Daniel Jurafsky, Klaus Ries, Noah Coccaro, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema. 1998. Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Classification of Dialog Acts in Conversational Speech? Language and Speech 41:3-4, 439-487 [PDF]

Stolcke, Andreas, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rebecca Bates, Noah Coccaro, Daniel Jurafsky, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, Klaus Ries, Paul Taylor, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema. (1998 draft). Dialog Act Modeling for Conversational Speech. Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, TR SS-98-01, 98-105. AAAI Press.

Jurafsky, Daniel, Rebecca Bates, Noah Coccaro, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, Klaus Ries, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Paul Taylor, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema. 1997. Automatic Detection of Discourse Structure for Speech Recognition and Understanding. In the Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara. (PDF).

Jurafsky, Daniel, Rebecca Bates, Noah Coccaro, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, Klaus Ries, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Paul Taylor, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema. 1998. Switchboard Discourse Language Modeling Project Report Research Note 30, Center for Speech and Language Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. (PDF).

• Jurafsky, Daniel, Elizabeth Shriberg, and Debra Biasca. 1997a. Switchboard SWBD-DAMSL Shallow-Discourse-Function Annotation Coders Manual, Draft 13, University of Colorado, Boulder. Institute of Cognitive Science Technical Report 97-02. Postscript or HTML

• Jurafsky, Daniel, Elizabeth Shriberg, and Debra Biasca. 1997b. Switchboard Dialog Act Corpus. Corpus can be downloaded here as swb1_dialogact_annot.tar.gz

• The training splits file ws97-train-convs.list used in Stolcke et al. (2000).

• The test splits file ws97-test-convs.list used in Stolcke et al. (2000).

• A beta release of the intonation labels supplied by Paul Taylor.

Rebecca Bates, Noah Coccaro, Daniel Jurafsky, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, Klaus Ries, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Paul Taylor, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema (1997) Discourse Language Modeling Project. Slides for final talk at CLSP Workshop 97, August 21, 1997. (98 pages)

Rebecca Bates, Noah Coccaro, Daniel Jurafsky, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, Klaus Ries, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Paul Taylor, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema (1997) Discourse Language Modeling Project. Slides for talk at LVCSR Hub 5 Workshop, November 5, 1997. (21 pages)