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<Paper uid="W99-0305">
  <Title>STANDARDISATION EFFORTS ON THE LEVEL OF DIALOGUE ACT IN THE MATE PROJECT</Title>
  <Section position="10" start_page="39" end_page="39" type="concl">
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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE
WORK
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Having reviewed a large amount of currently available coding schemes for dialogue acts we presented a methodology how to tackle the standardisation problem. We outlined best practice for scheme and coding book design which hopefully will lead to a better understanding and reusability of schemes and corpora annotated using the proposed method.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our approach is currently being implemented in the MATE workbench and will be tested and enhanced in the remaining time of the project. It will be applied to the CSELT, Danish Dialogue System, CHILDES, MAPTASK and VERBMOBIL corpus to help making it as task, domain and language independent as possible. Inadequacies during the testing phase which are related to the internal scheme we use will be discussed with the members of the DRI to further improve the scheme or its flattened variant.</Paragraph>
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