MDC-R: The Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference

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Main Authors: Madge, Chris, Camilleri, Maris, Garcia, Paloma Carretero, Karan, Vanja, Shao, Juexi, Jayannavar, Prashant, Hough, Julian, Roth, Benjamin, Poesio, Massimo
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author Madge, Chris
Camilleri, Maris
Garcia, Paloma Carretero
Karan, Vanja
Shao, Juexi
Jayannavar, Prashant
Hough, Julian
Roth, Benjamin
Poesio, Massimo
author_facet Madge, Chris
Camilleri, Maris
Garcia, Paloma Carretero
Karan, Vanja
Shao, Juexi
Jayannavar, Prashant
Hough, Julian
Roth, Benjamin
Poesio, Massimo
contents We introduce the Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference (MDC-R). MDC-R is a new language resource that supplements the original Minecraft Dialogue Corpus (MDC) with expert annotations of anaphoric and deictic reference. MDC's task-orientated, multi-turn, situated dialogue in a dynamic environment has motivated multiple annotation efforts, owing to the interesting linguistic phenomena that this setting gives rise to. We believe it can serve as a valuable resource when annotated with reference, too. Here, we discuss our method of annotation and the resulting corpus, and provide both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of the data. Furthermore, we carry out a short experiment demonstrating the usefulness of our corpus for referring expression comprehension.
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spellingShingle MDC-R: The Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference
Madge, Chris
Camilleri, Maris
Garcia, Paloma Carretero
Karan, Vanja
Shao, Juexi
Jayannavar, Prashant
Hough, Julian
Roth, Benjamin
Poesio, Massimo
Computation and Language
We introduce the Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference (MDC-R). MDC-R is a new language resource that supplements the original Minecraft Dialogue Corpus (MDC) with expert annotations of anaphoric and deictic reference. MDC's task-orientated, multi-turn, situated dialogue in a dynamic environment has motivated multiple annotation efforts, owing to the interesting linguistic phenomena that this setting gives rise to. We believe it can serve as a valuable resource when annotated with reference, too. Here, we discuss our method of annotation and the resulting corpus, and provide both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of the data. Furthermore, we carry out a short experiment demonstrating the usefulness of our corpus for referring expression comprehension.
title MDC-R: The Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22062