TRAINS Spoken Dialog Corpus

<p>This&nbsp;release&nbsp;contains a corpus of task-oriented spoken dialogs. These dialogs were collected in 1993 at the University of Rochester Department of Computer Science as part of the TRAINS project, a project to develop a conversationally proficient planning assistant, which helps a user construct a plan to achieve some task involving the manufacturing and shipment of goods in a railroad freight system. The collection procedure was designed to make the setting as close to human-computer interaction as possible, but was not a "wizard" scenario, where one person pretends to be a computer. Thus these dialogs provide a snapshot into an ideal human-computer interface that would be able to engage in fluent conversations.</p><br> <p>Altogether, this corpus includes 98 dialogs, collected using 20 different tasks and 34 different speakers. This amounts to six and a half hours of speech, about 5,900 speaker turns and 55,000 transcribed words.</p></br> Portions © 1995 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania