Participant subjectivity and involvement as a basis for discourse segmentation

  • Authors:
  • John Niekrasz;Johanna Moore

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh;University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a framework for analyzing episodic conversational activities in terms of expressed relationships between the participants and utterance content. We test the hypothesis that linguistic features which express such properties, e.g. tense, aspect, and person deixis, are a useful basis for automatic intentional discourse segmentation. We present a novel algorithm and test our hypothesis on a set of intentionally segmented conversational monologues. Our algorithm performs better than a simple baseline and as well as or better than well-known lexical-semantic segmentation methods.