Arabic Inquiry-Answer Dialogue Acts Annotation Schema

TL;DR

This paper introduces an annotation schema for Arabic inquiry-answer dialogues, aiming to facilitate language understanding by categorizing request and response acts in spoken and chat dialogues.

Contribution

It presents a novel annotation schema specifically designed for Arabic inquiry-answer dialogues, applied to a corpus of 83 dialogues to enhance language understanding.

Findings

Schema effectively captures request and response acts

Applied to 83 dialogues with promising results

Facilitates development of Arabic dialogue systems

Abstract

We present an annotation schema as part of an effort to create a manually annotated corpus for Arabic dialogue language understanding including spoken dialogue and written "chat" dialogue for inquiry-answer domain. The proposed schema handles mainly the request and response acts that occurs frequently in inquiry-answer debate conversations expressing request services, suggests, and offers. We applied the proposed schema on 83 Arabic inquiry-answer dialogues.