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DAMSL
/ SWBD-DAMSL (James
Allen, Dan
Jurafsky)
DAMSL - Dialog Act Markup in Several Layers - `defines a set of
primitive communicative actions that can be used to analyze dialogs'. The structure of DAMSL is
the result of work by the Multiparty Discourse Group at the [#DRI DRI] meetings. SWBD-DAMSL was
"designed as an augmentation to the [DAMSL] tag-set", for the purpose of annotating (a portion
of) the Switchboard corpus. A page of links to online papers is available here. Some
dialogues in the TRAINS Project have been marked up
using DAMSL annotation - pointers here. There is also a
dialog annotation tool called dat.