We introduce a statistical model for dialogues. We describe a dynamic programming algorithm that can be used to bracket a dialogue into segments and label each segment with its speech act. We evaluate the performance of the model. We also use this model for language modelling and get perplexity reduction.

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In: 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Publisher: International Speech Communication Association
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