SCARE: a Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions

In this paper we report on the release of a corpus of English spontaneous instruction giving situated dialogs. The corpus was collected using the Quake environment, a first-person virtual reality game, and consists of pairs of participants completing a direction giver-direction follower scenario. The corpus contains the collected audio and video, as well as word-aligned transcriptions and the positional/gaze information of the player. Referring expressions in the corpus are annotated with the IDs of their virtual world referents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Laura Stoia, Darla Magdalena Shockley, Donna K. Byron, Eric Fosler-Lussier
• Keywords: Education, English Spontaneous Instruction, First-person Virtual Reality, Giver-direction Follower Scenario, LREC 2008