Using machine learning for non-sentential utterance classification

Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 77-86

  Fernández, Raquel ^a   Ginzburg, Jonathan ^a   Lappin, Shalom ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus analysis; Machine learning; Non sentential utterances

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; CORPUS ANALYSIS; F-SCORE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NON-SENTENTIAL UTTERANCES; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; UTTERANCE CLASSIFICATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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