This paper presents strategies for generating entity level annotated text utterances using unmanaged crowds. These utterances are then used to build state-of-the-art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models, a required component to build dialogue systems. First, a wide variety of raw utterances are collected through a variant elicitation task. We ensure that these utterances are relevant by feedin...

This study examines language use as social action. Using Austin’s (1962), Bach’s (2003), and Searle’s (1969) speech act theory categorizations of constative utterances, performative illocutionary acts, perlocutionary this the acts used by UN’s Secretary-General in his opening remarks Emergency Special Session on Ukraine. The likewise intended actions effects they have audience. reveals that mad...

In spoken communications, correction utterances, which are utterances correcting other participants utterances and behaviors, play crucial roles, and detecting them is one of the key issues. Previously, much work has been done on automatic detection of correction utterances in human-human and human-computer dialogs, but they mostly dealt with the correction of erroneous utterances. However, in ...