Modeling speech acts in asynchronous conversations : a neural-CRF approach

• Main Authors: Shafiq Joty, Tasnim Mohiuddin
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Asynchronous Conversations; Modeling Speech
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105468; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48696; http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00339
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Participants in an asynchronous conversation (e.g., forum, e-mail) interact with each other at different times, performing certain communicative acts, called speech acts (e.g., question, request). In this article, we propose a hybrid approach to speech act recognition in asynchronous conversations....