Title
Unsupervised Clustering Of Utterances Using Non-Parametric Bayesian Methods
Abstract
Unsupervised clustering of utterances can be useful for the modeling of dialogue acts for dialogue applications. Previously, the Chinese restaurant process (CRP), a non-parametric Bayesian method, has been introduced and has shown promising results for the clustering of utterances in dialogue. This paper newly introduces the infinite HMM, which is also a non-parametric Bayesian method, and verifies its effectiveness. Experimental results in two dialogue domains show that the infinite HMM, which takes into account the sequence of utterances in its clustering process, significantly outperforms the CRP. Although the infinite HMM outperformed other methods, we also found that clustering complex dialogue data, such as human-human conversations, is still hard when compared to human-machine dialogues.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5
Unsupervised clustering, Nonparametric Bayesian methods, Chinese restaurant process, Infinite HMM
Field
DocType
Citations 
Chinese restaurant process,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Dialogue acts,Nonparametric bayesian,Speech recognition,Nonparametric statistics,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Hidden Markov model,Bayesian probability
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
8
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryuichiro Higashinaka134147.27
Noriaki Kawamae211910.96
Kugatsu Sadamitsu3427.40
yasuhiro minami440.48
Toyomi Meguro512611.87
Kohji Dohsaka617318.38
H. Inagaki7244.12
ntt cyber861.62