This website provides information about recent and current efforts directed at the design and application of interoperable concepts for semantic annotation, with particular attention to efforts in the context of the International Organisation for Standards ISO.
RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS:
- isa-10, "isa in Pisa", Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26, 2014.
- isa-8, "isa in Pisa", Potsdam, Germany, April 2013.
- isa-8, "isa in Pisa", Pisa, Italy, October 3-5, 2012.
- isa-7, Istanbul, May 26, 2012 => Booklet of abstracts available at
the isa-7 website
- isa-6, Oxford, January 2011 => Proceedings available at
the isa-6 website
- isa-5, Hong Kong, January 2010
- isa-4, Tilburg, January 2009
ISO PROJECTS:
- Project 24617-1: Semantic annotation framework, Part 1: Time and Events ("ISO-TimeML").
See project document ISO TC37 Draft International Standard DIS 24617-1, August 14, 2008
Project leader: James Pustejovsky; co-project leaders
: Kiyong Lee, Harry Bunt, Bran Boguraev, Nancy Ide.
ISO International Standard 24617-1 was published in the Spring of 2012.
See also:
- Project 24617-2: Semantic annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue acts ("DiAML").
See ISO TC37 Draft International Standard 24617-2, July 7, 2010
Project leader: Harry Bunt
Project team: Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Chae, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Olga Petukhova,
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Claudia Soria, David Traum.
ISO International Standard 24617-2 was published on September 4, 2012.
Expert Consultants Group: James Allen, Jens Allwood, Nick Campbell, Roberta Catizone, Thierry Declerck,
Anna Esposito, Raquel Fernandez, Giacomo Ferrari, Dirk Heylen, Julia Hirschberg,
Kristiina Jokinen, Maciej Karpinski, Staffan Larsson, Kiyong Lee, Oliver Lemon,
Carlos Martinez-Hinarejos, Paul Mc Kevitt, Michael McTear, David Novick, Tim Paek,
Patrizia Paggio, Catherine Pelachaud, Massimo Poesio, German Rigau, Laurent Romary,
Nicla Rossini, Milan Ruska, Candice Sidner, marieke van Ielka van der Sluis,
Kristinn Thorisson, Aesoon Yoon, Yorick Wilks
Also available here:
See also the following publications relating to ISO-24617-2::
- Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jae-Woong Chae, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida,
Olga Petukhova, Andrei Popescu-Belis, and David Traum:
"ISO 24617-2: A semantically-based standard for dialogue act annotation",
in Proceedings LREC 2012, Istanbul
- Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, Jae-Woong Chae, Alex Chengyu Fang, Koiti Hasida, Kiyong Lee,
Olga Petukhova, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Laurent Romary, Claudia Soria, and David Traum:
"Towards an ISO standard for dialogue act annotation",
in Proceedings LREC 2010, Malta
- Harry Bunt, Michael Kipp and Olga Petukhova:
"Using DiAML and ANVIL for dialogue act annotation",
in Proceedings LREC 2012, Istanbul
- Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt:
The
independence of dimensions in multimodal dialogue annotation".
In Proceedings 2009 NAACL-HLT Conference", Boulder, Colorado.
- Nancy Ide and Harry Bunt:
`Anatomy of Annotation Schemes: Mappings to GrAF'.
Proceedings 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010, pp. 115-124.
- Harry Bunt:
`A methodology for designing semantic
annotation languages exploiting syntactic-semantic iso-morphisms.'
In Proceedings of ICGL 2010, Second International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language
Resources, Alex Chengyu Fang, Nancy Ide and Jonathan Webster (eds), Hong Kong, 18-20 January 2010,
City University of Hong Kong, pp. 29-45.
- Harry Bunt:
`Multifunctionality in dialogue'.
Computer Speech and Language 25, 222-245.
- Harry Bunt:
`The
Semantics of Dialogue Acts'.
In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011),
Oxford, UK January 12-14, 2011, pp. 1-14.
Accompanying slides available here.
- Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt:
`Incremental
dialogue act understanding'
In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011),
Oxford, UK January 12-14, 2011, pp. 235-244.
- Volha Petukhova, Laurent Prevot and Harry Bunt:
`Discourse
relations in dialogue'
In Proceedings 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6),
Oxford, UK January 11-12, 2011.
- Semantic annotation framework, Part 3: Named entities.
See preliminary working draft.
Project leader: Gil Francopoulo.
- Semantic annotation framework, Part 4: Semantic roles
See preliminary working draft.
Project leader: Martha Palmer. Project team: Colin Baker, Harry Bunt, Katrin Erk, James Pustejovsky, Karen
Kipper-Schuler, Nianwen Xue
See also:
- Claire Bonial, Susan Brown, William Conley, Volha Petukhova, Martha Palmer and Harry Bunt:
`An
Exploratory Comparison of Thematic Roles in VerbNet and LIRICS'
In Proceedings 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6),
Oxford, UK January 11-12, 2011.
- Claire Bonial, William Corvey, Martha Palmer, Volha Petukhova, and Harry Bunt:
'A Hierarchical Unification
of LIRICS and VerbNet Semantic Roles.'
In: Proceedings IEEE-ICSC 2011 Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources,
Stanford, CA, September 22, 2011.
- Semantic annotation framework, Part 5: Discourse structures.
See ISO Working Draft 24617-5.
Project leader: Koiti Hasida.
- Semantic annotation framework, Part 6: Principles of semantic annotation ("ISO-Basics").
Proposal currently under consideration for formal approval
See ISO project proposal.
Project leader: Harry Bunt.
- Semantic annotation framework, Part 7: Spatial information ("ISO-Space").
Proposal under development.
Project leader: James Pustejovsky.
- Semantic annotation framework, Part 8: Relations in discourse.
Proposal under development.
Project leaders: Rashmi Prasad and Harry Bunt.
See: Harry Bunt, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi: 'First steps towards an ISO standard for annotating discourse relations.'
In: Proceedings Joint ISA-7 + SRSL-3 + I2MRT Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Istanbul, May2012.
RELATED PROJECTS:
- DIT++:
The DIT++ dialogue act annotation scheme, Releasse 5, is identical to the ISO 24617-2 scheme, except that DIT++ has the additional dimension of Communication Management, a more fine-frained set of feedback functions, and a few extra communicative functions.
- LIRICS
- semantic roles
See also:
- Claire Bonial, Susan Brown, William Conley, Volha Petukhova, Martha Palmer and Harry Bunt:
`An
Exploratory Comparison of Thematic Roles in VerbNet and LIRICS'
In Proceedings 6th Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6),
Oxford, UK January 11-12, 2011.
- Claire Bonial, William Corvey, Martha Palmer, Volha Petukhova, and Harry Bunt:
'A Hierarchical Unification
of LIRICS and VerbNet Semantic Roles.'
In: Proceedings IEEE-ICSC 2011 Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources,
Stanford, CA, September 22, 2011.
- dialogue acts: see Harry Bunt and Amanda Schiffrin: "Interoperable concepts for dialogue act annotation",
in Proceedings 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7), Tilburg 2007, pp. 9-16.
- semantic data categories: see LIRICS deliverable D4.3: "Documented set of semantic data categories", 2007.
- TimeML
- SpatialML