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Contrasting the Automatic Identification of Two Discourse Markers in Multiparty Dialogues

Published inProceedings of SIGDIAL 2007 (8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue), Editors ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 10-17
Presented at Antwerp (Belgium), September
Publication date2007
Abstract

The identification of occurrences of like and well that serve as discourse markers (DMs) is a classification problem which is studied here on a corpus of dialogue transcripts with more than 4,000 occurrences of each item. Decision trees using item-specific lexical, prosodic, positional and sociolinguistic features are trained using the C4.5 method. The results demonstrate improvement over past experiments, reaching the same range as inter-annotator agreement scores. DM identification appears to benefit from itemspecific classifiers, which perform better than general purpose ones, thanks to the differentiated use of lexical features.

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POPESCU-BELIS, Andréi, ZUFFEREY, Sandrine. Contrasting the Automatic Identification of Two Discourse Markers in Multiparty Dialogues. In: Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2007 (8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue). Antwerp (Belgium). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. p. 10–17.
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