LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset

Karan, M., Khare, P., Shekhar, R., McQuistin, S. , Perkins, C. , Castro, I., Tyson, G., Healey, P. G.T. and Purver, M. (2023) LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset. In: Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023, pp. 6080-6089. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.378)

Abstract

Collaboration increasingly happens online. This is especially true for large groups working on global tasks, with collaborators all around the globe. The size and distributed nature of such groups makes decision-making challenging. This paper proposes a set of dialog acts for the study of decision-making mechanisms in such groups, and provides a new annotated dataset based on real-world data from the public mail-archives of one such organisation – the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). We provide an initial data analysis showing that this dataset can be used to better understand decision-making in such organisations. Finally, we experiment with a preliminary transformer-based dialog act tagging model.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Additional Information: This work was supported by the UK EPSRC under grants EP/S033564/1 and EP/S036075/1 (Sodestream: Streamlining Social Decision Making for Enhanced Internet Standards). Purver was also supported by the Slovenian Research Agency via research core funding for the programme Knowledge Technologies (P2-0103).
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: McQuistin, Dr Stephen and Perkins, Dr Colin
• Authors: Karan, M., Khare, P., Shekhar, R., McQuistin, S., Perkins, C., Castro, I., Tyson, G., Healey, P. G.T., and Purver, M.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics
• First Published: First published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023: 6080-6089
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
304292		Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards	Colin Perkins	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)	EP/S036075/1	Computing Science