Second Life Corpus
Text logs of visitor interactions with Staff Duty Officer Moleno, a guide to army island in Second Life. The corpus covers 193 days of activity from May 2009-March 2010 and includes 3,863 interactions with Moleno by 2,326 unique participants. 14% of the dialogues are multiparty (with at least 2 human participants). A small portion of the corpus has been annotated with the dialogue act and evaluative annotation as discussed in Robinson et. al., 2010 below.
Sample Dialogues
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): Good morning, I’m Lt Moleno, the Army Island Staff Duty Officer.
User (Chat): hey
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): Here is a calling card if you ever need to call me.
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): How can I help you?
User (Chat): ummm, so is this the second life place for the army?
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): We are on Army Island, please feel free to explore and try out our interactive events.
User (Chat): where are the interactive events?
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): Events are on the Army Interaction Island.
User (Chat): where is that?
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): Just follow me.
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): We have arrived. Can I help you with something else?
User (Chat): no thank you very much
StaffDutyOfficer Moleno (Chat): Have a nice stay, please feel free to explore and try out our interactive events.
User (Chat): okay
Publications
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Full TextDialogues in Context: An Objective User-Oriented Evaluation Approach for Virtual Human Dialogue. In: 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Valletta, Malta; 2010. Abstract
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Full TextA Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds. In: IVA '09: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer; 2009. p. 372-8.