Annotating Topic Development in Information Seeking Queries

• This paper contributes to the limited body of empirical research in the domain of discourse structure of information seeking queries.We describe the development of an annotation schema for coding topic development in information seeking queries and the initialobservations from a pilot sample of query sessions. The main idea that we explore is the relationship between constant and variablediscourse entities and their role in tracking changes in the topic progression. We argue that the topicalized entities remain stable acrossdevelopment of the discourse and can be identified by a simple mechanism where anaphora resolution is a precursor. We also claim thata corpus annotated in this framework can be used as training data for dialogue management and computational semantics systems. 

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

corpus annotation

information structure

information seeking

conversational query sessions

Computational Linguistics

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Linguistics

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