We introduce the Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference (MDC-R). MDC-R is a new language resource that supplements the original Minecraft Dialogue Corpus (MDC) with expert annotations of anaphoric and deictic reference. MDC's task-orientated, multi-turn, situated dialogue in a dynamic environment has motivated multiple annotation efforts, owing to the interesting linguistic phenomena that this setting gives rise to. We believe it can serve as a valuable resource when annotated with reference, too. Here, we discuss our method of annotation and the resulting corpus, and provide both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of the data. Furthermore, we carry out a short experiment demonstrating the usefulness of our corpus for referring expression comprehension.
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@article{arxiv.2506.22062,
title = {MDC-R: The Minecraft Dialogue Corpus with Reference},
author = {Chris Madge and Maris Camilleri and Paloma Carretero Garcia and Vanja Karan and Juexi Shao and Prashant Jayannavar and Julian Hough and Benjamin Roth and Massimo Poesio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22062},
year = {2025}
}