Towards Incremental End-of-Utterance Detection in Dialogue Systems

We define the task of incremental or 0lag utterance segmentation, that is, the task of segmenting an ongoing speech recognition stream into utterance units, and present first results. We use a combination of hidden event language model, features from an incremental parser, and acoustic / prosodic features to train classifiers on real-world conversational data (from the Switchboard corpus). The best classifiers reach an F-score of around 56%, improving over baseline and related work.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Michaela Atterer, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen
• Keywords: COLING 2008, Computational Linguistics, Speech Recognition Stream, Utterance Segmentation, Utterance Units