An efficient statistical speech act type tagging system for speech translation systems

  • Authors:
  • Hideki Tanaka;Akio Yokoo

  • Affiliations:
  • ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1999

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper describes a new efficient speech act type tagging system. This system covers the tasks of (1) segmenting a turn into the optimal number of speech act units (SA units), and (2) assigning a speech act type tag (SA tag) to each SA unit. Our method is based on a theoretically clear statistical model that integrates linguistic, acoustic and situational information. We report tagging experiments on Japanese and English dialogue corpora manually labeled with SA tags. We then discuss the performance difference between the two languages. We also report on some translation experiments on positive response expressions using SA tags.