A Collaborative Annotation Task for Activity Afternoon Sept 28th, 2022

Annotation task: We are going to annotate some part of an explanatory dialogue from the 5-Levels dataset. The task is to assign explanation moves to the last 5 turns, i.e. 11 to 15 based on the moves in the Wiki. The goal here is to be as exhaustive as possible in assigning moves as each turn might include several explanation moves and each sentence or text fragment may be assigned with more than one label. The topic of explanatory dialogue is dimensions where an expert has been challenged to discuss the topic with a colleague, i.e. another expert with high proficiency.

Part of an Explanatory Dialogue: ('Topic: Dimensions , Proficiency level: Expert-Colleague)

-(1) Explainer:	[You're a string theorist, so tell us what kind of string theory you do, what it means to be a string theorist.] 

-(2) Explainee:	[One of the things that's key in the whole story of string theory is the piece of it that talks about quantum theories of gravity. So I'm very excited about what happens to spacetime, what does it even mean at the quantum level.]  

-(3) Explainer:	[Cool, so do you think a lot about extra dimensions in your everyday life?']

-(4) Explainee:	[Uh, yes I do.]

-(5) Explainer:	[And so when you think about extra dimensions, you put them together with brains and different fields, wrapping around the extra dimensions and so forth, right?] 

-(6) Explainee:	[Yes.]

-(7) Explainer:	[You know, a lot of people, a lot of string theorists, they care a lot about all the different ways, in which we could hide the extra dimensions. As someone who cares about cosmology, I wanna start asking why are the extra dimensions small at all? How did that happen? Is this something you think about yourself?] 

-(8) Explainee:	[Yes, well ultimately we'd like to understand the observable universe. If string theory turns out to be the thing that the universe cares about, we'd like to know with all of these possibilities that are in string theory, how do we get the one that looks like the world we live in?] 

-(9) Explainer:	[The thing I want to talk about is this paper I wrote with Matt Johnson and Lisa Randall where we realize there's another way to compactify extra dimensions spontaneously, dynamically. If you imagine starting with this big piece of paper, you couldn't wrap up everything, but within some region of space you could make a tube.] 

-(10) Explainee:	[Okay.]

-(11) Explainer:	['Right?', 'And down there in the tube it looks like', 'your long thing that is compactified in one direction', 'and infinitely extending in the other direction,', "so there's one less macroscopic dimension of space."]

-(12) Explainee:	["Hmm. Okay, that's nice."]

-(13) Explainer:	['[Sean] You think that sounds plausible to you?']

-(14) Explainee:	['It sounds like fun.', 'What I would immediately ask is', 'where do the large dimensions come from in the first place?', 'Is that something you address, or you just assume', 'that all the dimension are large as a starting point?']

-(15) Explainer:	['Yeah.', "So we certainly assume that they're all large", "as a starting point, and it's worse than that.", 'So in our paper we imagine you start', 'in de Sitter space.', 'You start in a universe with no matter,', 'no anything like that, just empty space', 'but with an energy that is positive', 'and all the dimensions are large.']