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Draft of DAMSL: Dialog Act Markup in Several Layers*
  James Allen and Mark Core
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
  * The structure of this annotation scheme was developed by the Multiparty
  Discourse Group at the Discourse Research Initiative (DRI) meeting at the
  University of Pennsylvania in March, 1996 and a follow up meeting at
  Schloss Dagstuhl in February 1997.  Additional revisions and development of
  the manual have been greatly aided by suggestions and feedback from Johanna
  Moore and her research group at the University of Pittsburgh, Rebecca
  Passonneau, and Teresa Sikorski.  The development of this manual was
  supported in part by NSF grant IRI-95-03312 and IRI-95-28998, the latter of
  which was under a subcontract from Columbia University.  Thanks to Becky
  for the acronym for DAMSL. While we have tried to maintain the spirit of
  the decisions made at the Dagstuhl workshop, we have also had to make
  changes based on problems that have arisen as we used the scheme in
  practice. Thus it should not be taken as the final word on the DRI scheme,
  but could be useful as a starting point to reach a general consensus.
  
  Mark Core 
  Mon Sep 22 20:05:25 EDT 1997