Distilling dialogues - A method using natural dialogue corpora for dialogue systems development

We report on a method for utilising corpora collected in natural settings. It is based on distilling re-writing natural dialogues to elicit the type of dialogue that would occur if one the dialogue participants was a computer instead of a human. The method isa complementto other meanssuch as Wizard of Oz-studies and un-distilled natural dialogues. We present the distilling method and guidelines for distillation. We also illustrate how the method affects a corpus of dialogues and discuss the pros and cons of three approaches in di erent phases of dialogue systems development.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Arne Jönsson, Nils Dahlbäck
• Keywords: ANLP 2000, Dialogue, Natural Dialogues, Re-writing Natural Dialogues