A Semi Supervised Dialog Act Tagging for Telugu
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In a task oriented domain, recognizing the intention of a speaker is important so that the conversation can proceed in the correct direction. This is possible only if there is a way of labeling the utterance with its proper intent. One such labeling techniques is Dialog Act (DA) tagging. This work focuses on discussing various n-gram DA tagging techniques. In this paper, a new method is proposed for DA tagging in Telugu using n-gram karakas with back-off as n-gram language modeling technique at n-gram level and Memory Based Learning at utterance level. The results show that the proposed method is on par with manual DA tagging.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015