Dataset Card for MIAM

Dataset Summary

Multilingual dIalogAct benchMark is a collection of resources for training, evaluating, and analyzing natural language understanding systems specifically designed for spoken language. Datasets are in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. They cover a variety of domains including spontaneous speech, scripted scenarios, and joint task completion. All datasets contain dialogue act labels.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Dihana Corpus

For the dihana configuration one example from the dataset is:

{
  'Speaker': 'U',
  'Utterance': 'Hola , quería obtener el horario para ir a Valencia',
  'Dialogue_Act': 9,  # 'Pregunta' ('Request')
  'Dialogue_ID': '0',
  'File_ID': 'B209_BA5c3',
}

iLISTEN Corpus

For the ilisten configuration one example from the dataset is:

{
  'Speaker': 'T_11_U11',
  'Utterance': 'ok, grazie per le informazioni',
  'Dialogue_Act': 6,  # 'KIND-ATTITUDE_SMALL-TALK'
  'Dialogue_ID': '0',
}

LORIA Corpus

For the loria configuration one example from the dataset is:

{
  'Speaker': 'Samir',
  'Utterance': 'Merci de votre visite, bonne chance, et à la prochaine !',
  'Dialogue_Act': 21,  # 'quit'
  'Dialogue_ID': '5',
  'File_ID': 'Dial_20111128_113927',
}

HCRC MapTask Corpus

For the maptask configuration one example from the dataset is:

{
  'Speaker': 'f',
  'Utterance': 'is it underneath the rope bridge or to the left',
  'Dialogue_Act': 6,  # 'query_w'
  'Dialogue_ID': '0',
  'File_ID': 'q4ec1',
}

VERBMOBIL

For the vm2 configuration one example from the dataset is:

{
  'Utterance': 'ja was sind viereinhalb Stunden Bahngerüttel gegen siebzig Minuten Turbulenzen im Flugzeug',
  'Utterance': 'Utterance',
  'Dialogue_Act': 'Dialogue_Act',  # 'INFORM'
  'Speaker': 'A',
  'Dialogue_ID': '66',
}

Data Fields

For the dihana configuration, the different fields are:

• Speaker: identifier of the speaker as a string.
• Utterance: Utterance as a string.
• Dialogue_Act: Dialog act label of the utterance. It can be one of 'Afirmacion' (0) [Feedback_positive], 'Apertura' (1) [Opening], 'Cierre' (2) [Closing], 'Confirmacion' (3) [Acknowledge], 'Espera' (4) [Hold], 'Indefinida' (5) [Undefined], 'Negacion' (6) [Feedback_negative], 'No_entendido' (7) [Request_clarify], 'Nueva_consulta' (8) [New_request], 'Pregunta' (9) [Request] or 'Respuesta' (10) [Reply].
• Dialogue_ID: identifier of the dialogue as a string.
• File_ID: identifier of the source file as a string.

For the ilisten configuration, the different fields are:

• Speaker: identifier of the speaker as a string.
• Utterance: Utterance as a string.
• Dialogue_Act: Dialog act label of the utterance. It can be one of 'AGREE' (0), 'ANSWER' (1), 'CLOSING' (2), 'ENCOURAGE-SORRY' (3), 'GENERIC-ANSWER' (4), 'INFO-REQUEST' (5), 'KIND-ATTITUDE_SMALL-TALK' (6), 'OFFER-GIVE-INFO' (7), 'OPENING' (8), 'PERSUASION-SUGGEST' (9), 'QUESTION' (10), 'REJECT' (11), 'SOLICITATION-REQ_CLARIFICATION' (12), 'STATEMENT' (13) or 'TALK-ABOUT-SELF' (14).
• Dialogue_ID: identifier of the dialogue as a string.

For the loria configuration, the different fields are:

• Speaker: identifier of the speaker as a string.
• Utterance: Utterance as a string.
• Dialogue_Act: Dialog act label of the utterance. It can be one of 'ack' (0), 'ask' (1), 'find_mold' (2), 'find_plans' (3), 'first_step' (4), 'greet' (5), 'help' (6), 'inform' (7), 'inform_engine' (8), 'inform_job' (9), 'inform_material_space' (10), 'informer_conditioner' (11), 'informer_decoration' (12), 'informer_elcomps' (13), 'informer_end_manufacturing' (14), 'kindAtt' (15), 'manufacturing_reqs' (16), 'next_step' (17), 'no' (18), 'other' (19), 'quality_control' (20), 'quit' (21), 'reqRep' (22), 'security_policies' (23), 'staff_enterprise' (24), 'staff_job' (25), 'studies_enterprise' (26), 'studies_job' (27), 'todo_failure' (28), 'todo_irreparable' (29), 'yes' (30)
• Dialogue_ID: identifier of the dialogue as a string.
• File_ID: identifier of the source file as a string.

For the maptask configuration, the different fields are:

• Speaker: identifier of the speaker as a string.
• Utterance: Utterance as a string.
• Dialogue_Act: Dialog act label of the utterance. It can be one of 'acknowledge' (0), 'align' (1), 'check' (2), 'clarify' (3), 'explain' (4), 'instruct' (5), 'query_w' (6), 'query_yn' (7), 'ready' (8), 'reply_n' (9), 'reply_w' (10) or 'reply_y' (11).
• Dialogue_ID: identifier of the dialogue as a string.
• File_ID: identifier of the source file as a string.

For the vm2 configuration, the different fields are:

• Utterance: Utterance as a string.
• Dialogue_Act: Dialogue act label of the utterance. It can be one of 'ACCEPT' (0), 'BACKCHANNEL' (1), 'BYE' (2), 'CLARIFY' (3), 'CLOSE' (4), 'COMMIT' (5), 'CONFIRM' (6), 'DEFER' (7), 'DELIBERATE' (8), 'DEVIATE_SCENARIO' (9), 'EXCLUDE' (10), 'EXPLAINED_REJECT' (11), 'FEEDBACK' (12), 'FEEDBACK_NEGATIVE' (13), 'FEEDBACK_POSITIVE' (14), 'GIVE_REASON' (15), 'GREET' (16), 'INFORM' (17), 'INIT' (18), 'INTRODUCE' (19), 'NOT_CLASSIFIABLE' (20), 'OFFER' (21), 'POLITENESS_FORMULA' (22), 'REJECT' (23), 'REQUEST' (24), 'REQUEST_CLARIFY' (25), 'REQUEST_COMMENT' (26), 'REQUEST_COMMIT' (27), 'REQUEST_SUGGEST' (28), 'SUGGEST' (29), 'THANK' (30).
• Speaker: Speaker as a string.
• Dialogue_ID: identifier of the dialogue as a string.

Data Splits

Dataset Creation

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.

Citation Information

@inproceedings{colombo-etal-2021-code,
    title = "Code-switched inspired losses for spoken dialog representations",
    author = "Colombo, Pierre  and
      Chapuis, Emile  and
      Labeau, Matthieu  and
      Clavel, Chlo{\'e}",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.656",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.656",
    pages = "8320--8337",
    abstract = "Spoken dialogue systems need to be able to handle both multiple languages and multilinguality inside a conversation (\textit{e.g} in case of code-switching). In this work, we introduce new pretraining losses tailored to learn generic multilingual spoken dialogue representations. The goal of these losses is to expose the model to code-switched language. In order to scale up training, we automatically build a pretraining corpus composed of multilingual conversations in five different languages (French, Italian, English, German and Spanish) from OpenSubtitles, a huge multilingual corpus composed of 24.3G tokens. We test the generic representations on MIAM, a new benchmark composed of five dialogue act corpora on the same aforementioned languages as well as on two novel multilingual tasks (\textit{i.e} multilingual mask utterance retrieval and multilingual inconsistency identification). Our experiments show that our new losses achieve a better performance in both monolingual and multilingual settings.",
}

Contributions

Thanks to @eusip and @PierreColombo for adding this dataset.