Peter Heeman, Donna Byron, and James Allen. Identifying discourse markers in spoken dialog. In the AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning and Discourse Processing, Stanford, 1998.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....we are not the first to look at conversations, we are the first to look at their higher level structure in these terms. There has been a long history of work in linguistics and more recently in speech processing to determine discourse events using intonational cues (see the work of Heeman et al. [13] and of Hirschberg and Nakatani [14] This work is at a much lower level of detail than we are considering here their goal is to determine the role of particular utterances in the context of a dialogue; e.g. is new information being introduced Is this answering a previous question Our ....

Peter Heeman, Donna Byron, and James Allen. Identifying discourse markers in spoken dialog. In the AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning and Discourse Processing, Stanford, 1998.

....in terms of discourse markers is also presented. 1. Introduction In the attempt to create a robust and relevant computational model for spontaneous speech interaction, speech system projects have only recently begun to consider dysfluencies as functional devices in the process of communication [1]. Save for the few instances in which interjections are analysed as part of the reparandum [2] or mentioned as back channelling moves [3,4] the contextual richness of interjection function has been hardly discussed [5,6] Researchers also have casually but consistently noted that nonlexical ....

Heeman, P.A., Byron D. and Allen, J.F. Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog. In AAA1 Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, March 1998.

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