Cue-Based interpretation of customer’s requests: analysis of estonian dialogue corpus

  • Authors:
  • Tiit Hennoste;Olga Gerassimenko;Riina Kasterpalu;Mare Koit;Andriela Rääbis;Krista Strandson;Maret Valdisoo

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  • Venue:
  • FinTAL'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Estonian spoken human-human information dialogues (calls) have been analyzed with the aim of finding lexical and syntactic cues which can be used for automatic recognition of dialogue acts. We considered a customer’s requests where the goal of the speaker is to get some information or trigger an action by the hearer who is an official person. The corpus analysis demonstrates that a limited number of verbs in a limited number of forms are used to form requests, and there is a difference between general requests which only introduce a topic and exact requests where the speaker has to get certain information or trigger an action by the hearer.