Unsupervised modeling of dialog acts in asynchronous conversations

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1807-1813

  Joty, Shafiq ^a   Carenini, Giuseppe ^a   Lin, Chin Yew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIALOG ACTS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GRAPH-THEORETIC; HMM MODELS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; TEMPORAL ORDER; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84876815928     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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