Title
Shallow dialogue processing using machine learning algorithms (or not)
Abstract
This paper presents a shallow dialogue analysis model, aimed at human-human dialogues in the context of staff or business meetings. Four components of the model are defined, and several machine learning techniques are used to extract features from dialogue transcripts: maximum entropy classifiers for dialogue acts, latent semantic analysis for topic segmentation, or decision tree classifiers for discourse markers. A rule-based approach is proposed for solving cross-modal references to meeting documents. The methods are trained and evaluated thanks to a common data set and annotation format. The integration of the components into an automated shallow dialogue parser opens the way to multimodal meeting processing and retrieval applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-30568-2_24
MLMI
Keywords
Field
DocType
annotation format,meeting document,meeting processing,business meeting,latent semantic analysis,dialogue act,shallow dialogue analysis model,human-human dialogue,dialogue transcript,shallow dialogue processing,automated shallow dialogue parser,maximum entropy,machine learning,rule based,discourse marker,decision tree classifier
Decision tree,Annotation,Segmentation,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Parsing,Principle of maximum entropy,Latent semantic analysis,Brown Corpus,Machine learning,Discourse marker
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3361
0302-9743
3-540-24509-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrei Popescu-Belis157364.13
Alexander Clark2434.81
Maria Georgescul3667.23
Denis Lalanne483661.09
Sandrine Zufferey5494.98