Summary of the paper
| Title | On the Role of Discourse Markers in Interactive Spoken Question Answering Systems |
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| Authors | Ioana Vasilescu, Sophie Rosset and Martine Adda-Decker |
| Abstract | This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the role of some discoursemarkers and the vocalic hesitation "euh" in a corpus of spoken human utterancescollected with the Ritel system, an open domain and spoken dialog system. Thefrequency and contextual combinatory of classical discourse markers and of thevocalic hesitation have been studied. This analysis pointed out somespecificity in terms of combinatory of the analyzed items. The classicaldiscourse markers seem to help initiating larger discursive blocks both atinitial and medial positions of the on-going turns. The vocalic hesitationstand also for marking the user's embarrassments and wish to close the dialog. |
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| Topics | Dialogue, Discourse annotation, representation and processing |
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On the Role of Discourse Markers in Interactive Spoken Question Answering Systems |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VASILESCU10.481, author = {Ioana Vasilescu, Sophie Rosset and Martine Adda-Decker}, title = {On the Role of Discourse Markers in Interactive Spoken Question Answering Systems}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |