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Currently, many researchers are using coding of discourse and dialogue phenomena in collected corpora to study the dynamics of dialogue. This manual describes a coding system based on utterance function, game structure, and higher level transaction structure, which has been applied to a corpus of spontaneous task-oriented spoken dialogues. 1 Introduction The current coding schemes have been applied to the HCRC Map Task Corpus (Anderson et al. 1991), which is a collection of 128 task-oriented dialogues involving approximately fifteen hours of speech. In the dialogues, two participants have slightly different versions of a simple map with approximately fifteen landmarks on it. One participant's map has a route printed on it; the task is for the other participant to duplicate the route. An example route giver map is given in figure 1. The trials balance the familiarity of the speakers --- whether they were acquainted before the experiment --- and whether eye contact was possible between ...

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