A Brief Survey of Textual Dialogue Corpora

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)

Abstract

Several dialogue corpora are currently available for research purposes, but they still fall short for the growing interest in the development of dialogue systems with their own specific requirements. In order to help those requiring such a corpus, this paper surveys a range of available options, in terms of aspects like speakers, size, languages, collection, annotations, and domains. Some trends are identified and possible approaches for the creation of new corpora are also discussed.