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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Cue Phrases for Cross-Corpus Dialogue Act Classification
In this paper, we present an investigation into the use of cue phrases as a basis for dialogue act classification. We define what we mean by cue phrases, and describe how we extra...
Nick Webb, Michael Ferguson
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain
Classifying the dialogue act of a user utterance is a key functionality of a dialogue management system. This paper presents a data-driven dialogue act classifier that is learned ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
A Pattern-based Analyzer for French in the Context of Spoken Language Translation: First Prototype and Evaluation
In this paper, we describe a first prototype of a pattern-based analyzer developed in the context of a speech-to-speech translation project using a pivot-based approach (the pivot...
Hervé Blanchon
ACL
1998
14 years 1 months ago
Dialogue Act Tagging with Transformation-Based Learning
For the task of recognizing dialogue acts, we are applying the Transformation-Based Learning (TBL) machine learning algorithm. To circumvent a sparse data problem, we extract valu...
Ken Samuel, Sandra Carberry, K. Vijay-Shanker
ACL
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Discourse Chunking: A Tool in Dialogue Act Tagging
Discourse chunking is a simple way to segment dialogues according to how dialogue participants raise topics and negotiate them. This paper explains a method for arranging dialogue...
T. Daniel Midgley
LREC
2008
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14 years 1 months ago
Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging
We present recent work in the area of Cross-Domain Dialogue Act (DA) tagging. We have previously reported on the use of a simple dialogue act classifier based on purely intra-utte...
Nick Webb, Ting Liu, Mark Hepple, Yorick Wilks
LREC
2008
97views Education» more  LREC 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating Dialogue Act Tagging with Naive and Expert Annotators
In this paper the dialogue act annotation of naive and expert annotators, both annotating the same data, are compared in order to characterise the insights annotations made by dif...
Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Investigating the Portability of Corpus-Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification
We present recent work in the area of Cross-Domain Dialogue Act tagging. Our experiments investigate the use of a simple dialogue act classifier based on purely intra-utterance fe...
Nick Webb, Ting Liu
CICLING
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Predicting Dialogue Acts from Prosodic Information
In this paper, the influence of intonation to recognize dialogue acts from speech is assessed. Assessment is based on an empirical approach: manually tagged data from a spoken-dial...
Sergio Rafael Coria Olguin, Luis Alberto Pineda Co...
CICLING
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Balancing Transactions in Practical Dialogues
In this paper a theory of dialogue acts analysis in problem-solving tasks-oriented conversations is presented. The theory postulates that in practical dialogues every transaction h...
Luis Cortés, Hayde Castellanos, Sergio Rafa...