Measuring annotator agreement in a complex hierarchical dialogue act annotation scheme

COLING/ACL 2006 - SIGdial06: 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 126-133

  Geertzen, Jeroen ^a   Bunt, Harry ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION SCHEME; DIALOGUE ACTS; KAPPA STATISTIC;

EID: 84857777947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1654595.1654619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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