CLASSIFICATION OF DIALOGUE ACTS IN URDU MULTI-PARTY DISCOURSE

Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Nick Webb

2011

Abstract

Classification of dialogue acts constitutes an integral part of various natural language processing applications. In this paper, we present an application of this task to Urdu language online multi-party discourse. With language specific modifications to established techniques such as permutation of word order in detected n-grams and variation of n-gram location, we developed an approach that is novel to this language. Preliminary performance results when compared to baseline are very encouraging for this approach.

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Shaikh S., Strzalkowski T. and Webb N. (2011). CLASSIFICATION OF DIALOGUE ACTS IN URDU MULTI-PARTY DISCOURSE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-79-9, pages 398-404. DOI: 10.5220/0003637304060412


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@conference{kdir11,
author={Samira Shaikh and Tomek Strzalkowski and Nick Webb},
title={CLASSIFICATION OF DIALOGUE ACTS IN URDU MULTI-PARTY DISCOURSE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={398-404},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003637304060412},
isbn={978-989-8425-79-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2011)
TI - CLASSIFICATION OF DIALOGUE ACTS IN URDU MULTI-PARTY DISCOURSE
SN - 978-989-8425-79-9
AU - Shaikh S.
AU - Strzalkowski T.
AU - Webb N.
PY - 2011
SP - 398
EP - 404
DO - 10.5220/0003637304060412