Christopher Tam


2023

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Annotating Situated Actions in Dialogue
Christopher Tam | Richard Brutti | Kenneth Lai | James Pustejovsky
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations

Actions are critical for interpreting dialogue: they provide context for demonstratives and definite descriptions in discourse, and they continually update the common ground. This paper describes how Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) can be used to annotate actions in multimodal human-human and human-object interactions. We conduct initial annotations of shared task and first-person point-of-view videos. We show that AMRs can be interpreted by a proxy language, such as VoxML, as executable annotation structures in order to recreate and simulate a series of annotated events.