Zufferey, Sandrine; Popescu-Belis, Andrei (2004). Towards Automatic Identification of Discourse Markers in Dialogs: the Case of 'Like'. In: Proceedings of SIGDIAL'04 (5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue). Cambridge, Massachussets. 30.04.-01.05.2004.
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This article discusses the detection of discourse
markers (DM) in dialog transcriptions,
by human annotators and by automated
means. After a theoretical discussion of the
definition of DMs and their relevance to natural
language processing, we focus on the role
of like as a DM. Results from experiments
with human annotators show that detection of
DMs is a difficult but reliable task, which requires
prosodic information from soundtracks.
Then, several types of features are defined for
automatic disambiguation of like: collocations,
part-of-speech tags and duration-based
features. Decision-tree learning shows that for
like, nearly 70% precision can be reached,
with near 100% recall, mainly using collocation
filters. Similar results hold for well, with
about 91% precision at 100% recall.
Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zufferey, Sandrine |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 840 French & related literatures 400 Language > 440 French & related languages |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sandrine Zufferey |
Date Deposited: |
25 Apr 2016 12:01 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:53 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.78686 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/78686 |
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