Annotating Topic Development in Information Seeking Queries
Venue
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Portorož, Slovenia
Publication Year
2016
Authors
Marta Andersson, Adnan Öztürel, Silvia Pareti
BibTeX
Abstract
This paper contributes to the limited body of empirical research into the domain of
discourse structure of information seeking queries. In this paper we describe the
development of an annotation schema for coding topic development in information
seeking queries and the initial observations from a pilot sample of query sessions.
The main idea explored is the relationship between constant and variable discourse
entities and their role in tracking changes in the topic progression. We argue that
the topicalized entities remain stable across discourse moves and can be identified
by a simple mechanism where anaphora resolution is a precursor. We also claim that
a corpus annotated in this framework can be used as training data for dialogue
management and computational semantics systems.
