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  <Title>Discourse Annotation in the Monroe Corpus</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented a description of our corpus annotation in the Monroe domain. It is novel in that it incorporates rich semantic information with reference and discourse information, a rarity for spoken dialogue domains which are typically very difficult to annotate. We expedite the annotation process and make it more reliable by semi-automating the parsing with checking and also by using two tools tailored for our domain to speed up annotation. The resulting corpus has several applications ranging from overall system development to the testing of theories and algorithms of reference and discourse. Our preliminary results demonstrate the usefulness of the corpus.</Paragraph>
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