An accurate identification dialog acts (DAs), which represent the illocutionary aspect of communication, is essential to support the understanding of human conversations. This re...
Silvia Quarteroni, Alexei V. Ivanov, Giuseppe Ricc...
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...
In this paper, we present a semi-supervised method for automatic speech act recognition in email and forums. The major challenge of this task is due to lack of labeled data in the...