Multistream recognition of dialogue acts in meetings

  • Authors:
  • Alfred Dielmann;Steve Renals

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • MLMI'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a joint segmentation and classification approach for the dialogue act recognition task on natural multi-party meetings (ICSI Meeting Corpus). Five broad DA categories are automatically recognised using a generative Dynamic Bayesian Network based infrastructure. Prosodic features and a switching graphical model are used to estimate DA boundaries, in conjunction with a factored language model which is used to relate words and DA categories. This easily generalizable and extensible system promotes a rational approach to the joint DA segmentation and recognition task, and is capable of good recognition performance.