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CORR
1998
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog
In this paper, we present a method for identifying discourse marker usage in spontaneous speech based on machine learning. Discourse markers are denoted by special POS tags, and t...
Peter A. Heeman, Donna K. Byron, James F. Allen
ACL
1997
14 years 15 days ago
Intonational Boundaries, Speech Repairs and Discourse Markers: Modeling Spoken Dialog
To understand a speaker’s turn of a conversation, one needs to segment it into intonational phrases, clean up any speech repairs that might have occurred, and identify discourse...
Peter A. Heeman, James F. Allen
LREC
2010
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14 years 18 days ago
On the Role of Discourse Markers in Interactive Spoken Question Answering Systems
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the role of some discourse markers and the vocalic hesitation euh in a corpus of spoken human utterances collected with the RITEL sys...
Ioana Vasilescu, Sophie Rosset, Martine Adda-Decke...
AAAI
2004
14 years 17 days ago
SCoT: A Spoken Conversational Tutor
We describe SCoT, a Spoken Conversational Tutor, which has been implemented in order to investigate the advantages of natural language in tutoring, especially spoken language. SCo...
Karl Schultz, Brady Clark, Heather Pon-Barry, Eliz...