Dialogue Act Classification

For goal-oriented document-grounded dialogs, it often involves complex contexts for identifying the most relevant information, which requires better understanding of the inter-relations between conversations and documents. Meanwhile, many online user-oriented documents use both semi-structured and unstructured contents for guiding users to access information of different contexts. Thus, we create a new goal-oriented document-grounded dialogue dataset that captures more diverse scenarios derived from various document contents from multiple domains such ssa.gov and studentaid.gov. For data collection, we propose a novel pipeline approach for dialogue data construction, which has been adapted and evaluated for several domains.

The Switchboard-1 Telephone Speech Corpus (LDC97S62) consists of approximately 260 hours of speech and was originally collected by Texas Instruments in 1990-1, under DARPA sponsorship. The first release of the corpus was published by NIST and distributed by the LDC in 1992-3. Switchboard is a collection of about 2,400 two-sided telephone conversations among 543 speakers (302 male, 241 female) from all areas of the United States. A computer-driven robot operator system handled the calls, giving the caller appropriate recorded prompts, selecting and dialing another person (the callee) to take part in a conversation, introducing a topic for discussion and recording the speech from the two subjects into separate channels until the conversation was finished. About 70 topics were provided, of which about 50 were used frequently. Selection of topics and callees was constrained so that: (1) no two speakers would converse together more than once and (2) no one spoke more than once on a given topic. Source: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S62

We construct a dataset named CPED from 40 Chinese TV shows. CPED consists of multisource knowledge related to empathy and personal characteristic. This knowledge covers 13 emotions, gender, Big Five personality traits, 19 dialogue acts and other knowledge. * We build a multiturn Chinese Personalized and Emotional Dialogue dataset called CPED. To the best of our knowledge, CPED is the first Chinese personalized and emotional dialogue dataset. CPED contains 12K dialogues and 133K utterances with multi-modal context. Therefore, it can be used in both complicated dialogue understanding and human-like conversation generation. * CPED has been annotated with 3 character attributes (name, gender age), Big Five personality traits, 2 types of dynamic emotional information (sentiment and emotion) and DAs. The personality traits and emotions can be used as prior external knowledge for open-domain conversation generation, making the conversation system have a good command of personification capabilities. * We propose three tasks for CPED: personality recognition in conversations (PRC), emotion recognition in conversations (ERC), and personalized and emotional conversation (PEC). A set of experiments verify the importance of using personalities and emotions as prior external knowledge for conversation generation.

The MRDA corpus consists of about 75 hours of speech from 75 naturally-occurring meetings among 53 speakers. The tagset used for labeling is a modified version of the SWBD-DAMSL tagset. It is annotated with three types of information: marking of the dialogue act segment boundaries, marking of the dialogue acts and marking of correspondences between dialogue acts. Description from NLP Progress

Emotional Dialogue Acts data contains dialogue act labels for existing emotion multi-modal conversational datasets. We chose two popular multimodal emotion datasets: Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD) and Interactive Emotional dyadic MOtion CAPture database (IEMOCAP). EDAs reveal associations between dialogue acts and emotional states in a natural-conversational language such as Accept/Agree dialogue acts often occur with the Joy emotion, Apology with Sadness, and Thanking with Joy.

EMOTyDA is a multimodal Emotion aware Dialogue Act dataset collected from open-sourced dialogue datasets.

Situated Dialogue Navigation (SDN) is a navigation benchmark of 183 trials with a total of 8415 utterances, around 18.7 hours of control streams, and 2.9 hours of trimmed audio. SDN is developed to evaluate the agent's ability to predict dialogue moves from humans as well as generate its own dialogue moves and physical navigation actions.