Unsupervised classification of dialogue acts using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 341-348

  Crook, Nigel ^a   Granell, Ramon ^a   Pulman, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIALOGUE ACTS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; DIRICHLET PROCESS MIXTURE MODEL; MANUAL ANNOTATION; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053996940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1708376.1708427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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