The Association Between Subject Matter and Discourse Segmentation

Wepresent an empiricalstudy of the relationship between subject matter and the perception of discourse segment boundariesin dialogue.In this study, wepresentedsubjects withdialoguesthat hadthe samediscoursestructure,instantiatedwithcontentfromdifferent domains.Theywereaskedto notewherethesedialoguesstartedto digress.Ourresults indicatethatthereis a signi

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: FLAIRS
• Authors: Susan M. Haller, Timothy V. Fossum
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Discourse Segment Boundariesin, FLAIRS 2001, Samediscoursestructure, Subject Matter