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Multi-Level Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Dialog Act Classification (arxiv.org)
4 points by sel1 on Oct 8, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Instead of labeling each utterance alone, this system reads the conversation at several levels, mixing the words with cues like who is speaking and the surrounding context to guess each utterance's role. It beat earlier approaches on a phone-conversation labeling task by over 6%.

Abstract · Multi-level Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Dialog Act Classification

In this paper we focus on the problem of dialog act (DA) labelling. This problem has recently attracted a lot of attention as it is an important sub-part of an automatic question answering system, which is currently in great demand. Traditional methods tend to see this problem as a sequence labelling task and deals with it by applying classifiers with rich features. Most of the current neural network models still omit the sequential information in the conversation. Henceforth, we apply a novel multi-level gated recurrent neural network (GRNN) with non-textual information to predict the DA tag. Our model not only utilizes textual information, but also makes use of non-textual and contextual information. In comparison, our model has shown significant improvement over previous works on Switchboard Dialog Act (SWDA) task by over 6%.

Wei Li, Yunfang Wu
arXiv:1910.01822 · cs.CL · submitted Oct 4, 2019
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> a dialog act is an utterance, in the context of a conversational dialog, that serves a function in the dialog. Types of dialog acts include a question, a statement, or a request for action.

This seems important for an application like extracting new facts from a news article.