B on Labov & Waletzky’s (1) displacement method, Cariola (2) demonstrated that elicited dream narratives follow a homogenous structure of 1) Topic introduction, 2) Orientation, 3) Complication, 4) Evaluation, and 5) Coda. Topic introduction units can be defined as conversation turn sequences with which the interviewer or conversational partner may introduce the topic of the dream. In relation t...

Topic segmentation and labeling is often considered a prerequisite for higher-level conversation analysis and has been shown to be useful in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. We present two new corpora of email and blog conversations annotated with topics, and evaluate annotator reliability for the segmentation and labeling tasks in these asynchronous conversations. We propos...