Speech Act Recognition

In this paper, we present a semi-supervised method for automatic speech act recogni- tion in email and forums. The major chal- lenge of this task is due to lack of …...

This paper addresses the problem of speech act recognition in written asyn- chronous conversations (e.g., fora, emails). We propose a class of conditional structured models defined over arbitrary graph structures …...

AbstractWe address the problem of speech act recognition (SAR) in asynchronous conversations (forums, emails). Unlike synchronous conversations (e.g., meetings, phone), asynchronous domains lack large labeled datasets to train an effective …...