Paper: LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset

by sodestream Project • Wednesday 16 August 2023 • Permalink

Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Patrick G.T. Healey, Matthew Purver
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Abstract

Collaboration increasingly happens online. This is especially true for large groups working on global tasks, with collaborators all around the globe. The size and distributed nature of such groups makes decision-making challenging. This paper proposes a set of dialog acts for the study of decision-making mechanisms in such groups, and provides a new annotated dataset based on real-world data from the public mail-archives of one such organisation – the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). We provide an initial data analysis showing that this dataset can be used to better understand decision-making in such organisations. Finally, we experiment with a preliminary transformer-based dialog act tagging model.

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