TALK Joint TALK/AMI WorkshopAMI

Standards for Multimodal Dialogue Context

Workshop Schedule

12 December 2005

Edinburgh HCRC in cooperation with W3C

This workshop was being organized by the TALK and AMI IST research projects with support from the W3C. It was intended to determine further work in the area of representations of multimodal dialogue context.

Here is the original call for papers

Here are the workshop's online Proceedings

Schedule:

  • 9.30 COFFEE and Registration

  • 10.00 Welcome (Oliver Lemon) and introductions (who/what/why? -all participants)
  • 10.15 Henry Thompson: issues in standardization (25 mins)

  • 10.40 - 11.55 (3 discussion papers)
  • paper1 Dave Raggett "The Extensible Multi-Modal Annotation Language and its role in speech dialogue systems" (25 min)
  • paper2 Jean Carletta/ Johnathan Kilgour "Data representation needs: Experiences from the NITE XML Toolkit and the AMI project" (25 min)
  • paper3 Harry Bunt/Simon Keizer "Dialogue annotation, context representation and ISO standards" (25 min)

  • 11.55 - 12.40 : discussion period 1: Chair: Oliver Lemon (45 min)
  • - What should be standardized and why? (human-machine vs. human-human, ....)
  • - Types and purposes of context
  • - Incorporating multimodality
  • - Methods for automatic context annotation, feature engineering
  • - Methods for evaluation of context annotations/representations

  • 12.40 - 1.30 LUNCH

  • 1.30 - 2.45
  • paper4 Oliver Lemon "The TALK ISU dialogue context representation" (25 min)
  • paper5 Verena Rieser "Bootstrapping Standards for Multimodal Dialogue Context" (25 min)
  • paper6 Alex Lascarides "Annotating Discourse Structures for Robust Semantic Interpretation" (25 min)

  • 2.45 - 3.30 discussion period 2: Chair: Staffan Larsson (45 min)
  • - the TrindiKit XML logging format
  • - is a shared standard format for definitions of dialogue acts possible?
  • - is a shared standard format for definitions of dialogue context possible?
  • - subdivisions/dimensions of dialogue context (e.g. history, semantic, task, perceptual, reward,....)

  • 3.30 COFFEE

  • 3.45 - 4.35
  • paper7 Cristoph Muller "Multi-Level Annotation with MMAX2" (25 min)
  • paper8 Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova : "Multiple Levels of Annotation in the TALK and DIALOG Projects" (25 min)

  • 4.35 - 5.30 discussion period : Chair: Dave Raggett (55 mins)
  • - Issues arising
  • - Building community and consensus re: Incubator Group in W3C for Dialogue context formats.

  • Participants

    Further details

    Further details are available on the local arrangements page, giving details of the location, transport and accommodation.