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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm" align=center>Announcement</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm" align=center>DIALOGUE DIVERSITY CORPUS</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm" align=center><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A
href="http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~billmann/diversity">http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~billmann/diversity</A></U></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm" align=center>(apologies if you receive multiple
copies)</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm">A new corpus is available for facilitating
research on human dialogue. </P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm">The Dialogue Diversity Corpus (DDC) gives direct
access to a set of dialogue transcripts (13 sources, more than 12 hours of
dialogue, all in English.). It also gives a set of links and methods for
accessing hundreds of additional dialogues (principally in English.) Several
sources provide speech data as well as transcripts.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm">The dialogues in this corpus occurred in a very
diverse collection of interactive situations. Thus it is a data resource for
studies of the breadth of coverage of particular dialogue models, and for
studies that compare dialogue from different situations. </P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm">For smaller projects such as pilot studies,
program testing and even some term papers, the direct access portion will be
sufficient. The access methods may yield enough dialogue data for some much
larger studies. </P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.21cm">The corpus is designed for data finding rather
than for bulk processing. Taken as a whole, it is irregular and not homogeneous
in any way. It is generally unsuitable for drawing any conclusions about
dialogue taken as a single category.</P></DIV>
<DIV>===============<BR>William C. Mann<BR> </DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:bill_mann@sil.org">bill_mann@sil.org</A></DIV>
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