GrounDialog: A Dataset for Repair and Grounding in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogues for Language Learning

Xuanming Zhang, Rahul Divekar, Rutuja Ubale, Zhou Yu


Abstract
Improving conversational proficiency is a key target for students learning a new language. While acquiring conversational proficiency, students must learn the linguistic mechanisms of Repair and Grounding (R\&G) to negotiate meaning and find common ground with their interlocutor so conversational breakdowns can be resolved. Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) have long been sought as a tool to hone conversational proficiency. However, the R&G patterns for language learners interacting with a task-oriented spoken dialogue system are not reflected explicitly in any existing datasets. Therefore, to move the needle in Spoken Dialogue Systems for language learning we present GrounDialog: an annotated dataset of spoken conversations where we elicit a rich set of R&G patterns.
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2023.bea-1.26
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Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Ekaterina Kochmar, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Nitin Madnani, Anaïs Tack, Victoria Yaneva, Zheng Yuan, Torsten Zesch
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.26
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Xuanming Zhang, Rahul Divekar, Rutuja Ubale, and Zhou Yu. 2023. GrounDialog: A Dataset for Repair and Grounding in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogues for Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), pages 300–314, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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GrounDialog: A Dataset for Repair and Grounding in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogues for Language Learning (Zhang et al., BEA 2023)
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