Contrasting the interaction structure of an email and a telephone corpus: A machine learning approach to annotation of dialogue function units

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 357-366

  Hu, Jun ^a   Passonneau, Rebecca J ^b   Rambow, Owen ^b  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION SCHEME; FUNCTION UNIT; INTERACTION STRUCTURES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NOVEL APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; TELEPHONE SETS;

TELEPHONE;

EID: 84863230016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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