Annotation Needs for Referring Expressions in Pair-Programming Dialogue

Domingo, Cecilia; Piwek, Paul; Wermelinger, Michel and Stoyanchev, Svetlana (2024). Annotation Needs for Referring Expressions in Pair-Programming Dialogue. In: Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts, SEMDIAL.

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Abstract

Referring expressions are a widely researched area in linguistics, with some work also on dialogue. As dialogue technology evolves and language models increasingly incorporate programming languages, pair-programming dialogues become a promising area of research. We recorded 24 dialogues between adult learners to analyse how they refer to the code that they create through the task. These dialogues present some challenges (and interesting avenues for research) for annotation and analysis, due to several factors: high multimodality, mix of abstract and specific entities in the same domain, variability in naming practices, and referents being sometimes located in the future or remaining hypothetical.

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