Arabic Inquiry-Answer Dialogue Acts Annotation Schema
This work addresses the need for annotated resources in Arabic language processing, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific domain and schema.
The authors tackled the problem of understanding Arabic dialogue by proposing an annotation schema for inquiry-answer conversations, resulting in its application to 83 dialogues.
We present an annotation schema as part of an effort to create a manually annotated corpus for Arabic dialogue language understanding including spoken dialogue and written "chat" dialogue for inquiry-answer domain. The proposed schema handles mainly the request and response acts that occurs frequently in inquiry-answer debate conversations expressing request services, suggests, and offers. We applied the proposed schema on 83 Arabic inquiry-answer dialogues.