Yes/No Questions and Answers in the Map Task Corpus
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Map Task Corpus
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Map Task Corpus
Polar answer:
Q:And you loop round about a bakery?
<check>
R: Yeah.
Polar + STUFF:
Q:Have you got a white mountain? <qyn>
R: Yes, I have a white mountain to my north.
STUFF:
Q:Do you meet the savannah? <qyn>
R: Ehm, when I go round the collapsed shelter
my savannah is to...
Yes/No Questions and Answers in
the Map Task Corpus
Deborah Rossen-Knill
Beverly Spejewski
Beth Ann Hockey
Stephen Isard
Matthew Stone
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
July 1997
Site of the NSF Science and Technology Center for
Research in Cognitive Science
IRCS Report 97--11
, Yes/No Questions and Answers in the Map Task Corpus
Deborah Rossen-Knilly Beverly Spejewskiz Beth Ann Hockeyz Stephen Isardx Matthew Stonez
y Phila. College of Textiles & Science z University of Pennsylvania x University of Edinburgh
Philadelphia PA 19144-5497 Philadelphia PA 19104-6228 Edinburgh EH1 1HN
fdrossen, spejewsk, beth, matthewg@linc.cis.upenn.edu stepheni@cstr.ed.ac.uk
Address correspondence to:
Deborah Rossen-Knill
The Learning Center
Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science
Henry Ave and School House Ln
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Acknowledgements. We would like to thank the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University
of Pennsylvania for supporting D. Rossen-Knill, M. Stone, and S. Isard during this project.
, Abstract
We analyze question-answer pairs in a variety of ways, for three different kinds of yes/no questions. We
find that the classification of yes/no questions described in (Carletta et al., 1995) for the Edinburgh map task
corpus correlates well with whether a response will be a bare yes or no, a yes or no plus additional speech,
or just speech without an overt yes or no. Correlation with responses described as “direct” or “indirect” is
less good. We also find that the strength of a question’s expectation for a YES response correlates with the
move type, the form of the response, and lexical yes choices; and that the move type correlates with the
form of the question and with turn-taking schema.
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