TIDES Dataset Tracks 12 Teams Over a Semester to Study Multi-Party Social Dynamics

josephseering · x · 2026-08-19

KAIST and SkillBench released TIDES, a longitudinal bilingual dataset addressing models' difficulty in tracking subtle social dynamics in multi-party conversations. Following 12 student teams for a full semester, it includes 88 meetings, 104 transcripts, and 75,971 utterances in Korean and English. Unlike existing datasets that are scripted, short-term, or use fixed roles, TIDES captures authentic in-the-wild recordings and annotates emergent roles (e.g., dominance, sociability) based on observed behavior, aiming to improve training and evaluation of group conversation capabilities.

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