@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2023-groundialog,
    title = "{G}roun{D}ialog: A Dataset for Repair and Grounding in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogues for Language Learning",
    author = "Zhang, Xuanming  and
      Divekar, Rahul  and
      Ubale, Rutuja  and
      Yu, Zhou",
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Tack, Ana{\"\i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng  and
      Zesch, Torsten},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.26",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.26",
    pages = "300--314",
    abstract = "Improving conversational proficiency is a key target for students learning a new language. While acquiring conversational proficiency, students must learn the linguistic mechanisms of Repair and Grounding (R{\textbackslash}{\&}amp;G) to negotiate meaning and find common ground with their interlocutor so conversational breakdowns can be resolved. Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) have long been sought as a tool to hone conversational proficiency. However, the R{\&}amp;G patterns for language learners interacting with a task-oriented spoken dialogue system are not reflected explicitly in any existing datasets. Therefore, to move the needle in Spoken Dialogue Systems for language learning we present GrounDialog: an annotated dataset of spoken conversations where we elicit a rich set of R{\&}amp;G patterns.",
}

Improving conversational proficiency is a key target for students learning a new language. While acquiring conversational proficiency, students must learn the linguistic mechanisms of Repair and Grounding (R{\textbackslash}{\&}amp;G) to negotiate meaning and find common ground with their interlocutor so conversational breakdowns can be resolved. Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) have long been sought as a tool to hone conversational proficiency. However, the R{\&}amp;G patterns for language learners interacting with a task-oriented spoken dialogue system are not reflected explicitly in any existing datasets. Therefore, to move the needle in Spoken Dialogue Systems for language learning we present GrounDialog: an annotated dataset of spoken conversations where we elicit a rich set of R{\&}amp;G patterns.
Zhang, Xuanming Divekar, Rahul Ubale, Rutuja Yu, Zhou
GrounDialog: A Dataset for Repair and Grounding in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogues for Language Learning