Abstract
This paper describes the use of neca’s rrl – Rich Representation Language – in the aid of automatic dialogue summarisation. We start by defining a set of summary acts, and then present a mapping between these acts, taken from human generated summaries, and their corresponding speech acts from the source dialogues. This mapping can then be used by a summary planner to identify portions in the dialogue with higher probability to support some argument it is about to introduce in the summary. Depending on the application, it could also be used to gather, in the source dialogue, specific information to fulfill summary templates. In following this procedure, we hope researchers will be able to build more human-like summaries, by linking corpora summaries to their source dialogues.
This research was sponsored by CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – and CAPES – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Austin, J.L.: How to do Things with Words, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1975)
Banko, M., Mittal, V., Kantrowitz, M., Goldstein, J.: Generating extraction-based summaries from hand-written summaries by aligning text spans (pacling 1999). In: Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, Waterloo, Canada (1999)
Daum-III, H., Marcu, D.: Induction of word and phrase alignments for automatic document summarization. Computational Linguistics 31(4), 505–530 (2005)
van Deemter, K., Krenn, B., Piwek, P., Klesen, M., Schröder, M., Baumann, S.: Fully generated scripted dialogue for embodied agents. Artificial Intelligence 172(10) (June 2008)
Kameyama, M., Kawai, G., Arima, I.: A real-time system for summarizing human-human spontaneous spoken dialogues. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language (ICSLP 1996), Philadelphia, USA, vol. 2, pp. 681–684 (1996)
Kamp, H., Reyle, U.: From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory. Springer, Heidelberg (1993)
Kipp, M., Alexandersson, J., Reithinger, N.: Understanding spontaneous negotiation dialogue. In: Proceedings of the IJCAI 1999 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 57–64 (1999)
Klesen, M.: Dialogue act specification for the neca domains. Manuscript, DFKI (June 2002)
Miller, J.: An Introduction to English Syntax. Edinburgh University Press Ltd., Edinburgh (2002) ISBN 0 7486 1254 8
Parsons, T.: Events in the Semantics of English: A Study in Subatomic Semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge (January 1994) ISBN 0-262-66093-8
Piwek, P.: NECA deliverable D3a: Specification of scene descriptions for the neca domains. Tech. rep., ITRI – University of Brighton, Brighton, UK (2002); nECA IST-2000-28580 Deliverable D3a
Piwek, P., Krenn, B., Schröder, M., Grice, M., Baumann, S., Pirker, H.: RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the description of agent behaviour in NECA. In: Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Embodied Conversational Agents - Let’s Specify and Evaluate them!, Bologna, Italy (2002)
Reithinger, N., Kipp, M., Engel, R., Alexandersson, J.: Summarizing multilingual spoken negotiation dialogues. In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000), Hong Kong, China, pp. 310–317 (2000)
Roman, N.T., Piwek, P., Carvalho, A.M.B.R.: Politeness and summarization: an exploratory study. In: Qu, Y., Shanahan, J., Wiebe, J. (eds.) Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium: Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications (AAAI-EAAT 2004), March 22-24, pp. 112–117. The AAAI Press, Palo Alto (2004)
Roman, N.T., Piwek, P., Carvalho, A.M.B.R.: Politeness and Bias in Dialogue Summarization: Two Exploratory Studies. In: Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications. The Information Retrieval Series, January 9, vol. 20, pp. 171–185. Springer, Netherlands (2006)
Roman, N.T., Piwek, P., Carvalho, A.M.B.R.: Emotion and behaviour in automatic dialogue summarisation. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop in Information and Human Language Technology (TIL 2008), Vila Velha, Brazil, October 27-28, vol. 2, pp. 304–309 (2008)
Searle, J.: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1969)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Roman, N.T., Carvalho, A.M.B.R. (2010). Complementing RRL for Dialogue Summarisation. In: Kuri-Morales, A., Simari, G.R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2010. IBERAMIA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16952-6_38
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16952-6_38
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-16951-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-16952-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)