Improving Korean speech acts analysis by using shrinkage and discourse stack

Kyungsun Kim, Youngjoong Ko, Jungyun Seo

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Abstract

A speech act is a linguistic action intended by a speaker. It is important to analyze the speech act for the dialogue understanding system because the speech act of an utterance is closely tied with the user's intention in the utterance. This paper proposes to use a speech acts hierarchy and a discourse stack for improving the accuracy of classifiers in speech acts analysis. We first adopt a hierarchical statistical technique called shrinkage to solve the data sparseness problem. In addition, we use a discourse stack in order to easily apply discourse structure information to the speech acts analysis. From the results of experiments, we observed that the proposed model made a significant improvement for Korean speech acts analysis. Moreover, we found that it can be more useful when training data is insufficient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages731-741
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2005 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 11 Oct 200513 Oct 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3651 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2005
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period11/10/0513/10/05

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