DialogueView

Partial funding for the development of DialogueView was provided by the
National Science Foundation under grant IIS-0326496.

1. Introduction:

DialogueView is a tool for annotating dialogues with utterance boundaries, speech repairs, speech act tags, and discourse segments. The tool provides several views of the data, including a word view that is time-aligned with the audio signal, and an utterance view that shows the dialogue as if it were a script for a play. The utterance view abstracts away from lower level details that are coded in the word view. This allows the annotator to have a simpler view of the dialogue when coding speech act tags and discourse structure, but still have access to the details when needed.

2. Requirements:

To run DialogueView, you need to download and install Tcl/Tk and the snack library. We use the ActiveTcl distribution, which includes snack, but other versions will probably work.

Currently, we have only tested DialogueView on Microsoft Windows and Linux Enterprise 3.0. We think it should work on Mac.

3. License and download:

Click here to download DialogueView (Update History).

Then unzip the file DialogueView.zip.

5. Using DialogueView to view demo examples:

1) Double-click the file DialogueView.tcl. It will bring up three windows: the word view, the utterance view, and the intentional view.

2) From the menu in the utterance view, choose file => open project, click the button browse, go into the sub-directory examples, then select any *.prj file, and click ok.

The user manuals for DialgoueView are still under development.

6. Support:

Here is an updating history. If you find any bugs or have any suggestions, please contact Fan Yang via e-mail (fly@cslu.ogi.edu). We will try to respond to you as soon as possible.

 7. Publications:

[1] Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Kristy Hollingshead, Susan E. Strayer: DialogueView: annotating dialogues in multiple views with abstraction. Accepted by Natural Language Engineering.

[2] Peter Heeman, Fan Yang, and Susan E. Strayer: DialogView: An Annotation Tool for Dialogue, in Proceedings of 3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Philadelphia, 2002.

[3] Fan Yang and Peter A. Heeman: DialogueView: An Annotation Tool For Dialogue. In Proceedings of HLT-EMNLP (demo session), 2005.