Towards automatic identification of discourse markers in dialogs: The case of like

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2004 Workshop - 5th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 63-71

  Zufferey, Sandrine ^a   Popescu Belis, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION TREES;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; DECISION TREE LEARNING; DISCOURSE MARKERS; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; PROSODICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85109420586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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