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The ADELE Corpus of Dyadic Social Text Conversations:Dialog Act Annotation with ISO 24617-2
Campbell, Nick; Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Clark Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Levacher, Killian; Calvo, Arturo; Cerrato, Loredana (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018)Social or interactional dialog is less well described than task-based or instrumental dialog, although there is increasing interest in the genre, particularly in light of new spoken and text dialog applications which aim ... -
ADELE: Care and companionship for independent aging
Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)Dialogue system technology offers interesting prospects for services to seniors living independently. A spoken or text dialog system can support services such as monitoring medication adherence, fall prevention and ... -
ADELE: Evaluating and Benchmarking an Artificial Conversational Care Agent
Spillane, Brendan; Saam, Christian; Gilmartin, Emer; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Wade, Vincent (http://casforhealth.org, 2020-04-26)This paper provides an overview of a planned experiment to evaluate the latest iteration of ADELE, an artificial conversational agent to aid in the care of the elderly. It is being evaluated against an earlier iteration ... -
Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Campbell, Nick; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Levacher, Killian; Cerrato, Loredana; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Clark, Leigh; Calvo, Arturo (2017)Dialogue act annotation aids understanding of interaction structure, and also in the design of artificial dialogue. While many dialogues can be described as task-based or instrumental, others are more interactional. These ... -
Dialog acts in greeting and leavetaking in social talk
Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Campbell, Nick; GIlmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Su, Ketong; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2017)Conversation proceeds through dialogue moves or acts, and dialog act annotation can aid the design of artificial dialog. While many dialogs are task-based or instrumental, with clear goals, as in the case of a service ... -
Identifying Topic Shift and Topic Shading in Switchboard
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Clark, Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)This paper highlights some of the ongoing work on the ADELE project, namely the identification and annotation of topic shift and topic shading in the Switchboard-1 Release-2 corpus. The purpose of this is to train an ... -
Issues Relating to Trust in Care Agents for the Elderly
Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Wade, Vincent (ACM, 2019-08-22)There is increasing academic interest in and commercial development of care agents to assist with the care of the elderly in the home. This paper defines some of the under-explored questions and issues relating to trust. ...