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    "title": "Utilizing Statistical Dialogue Act Processing in Verbmobil",
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            "first": "Norbert",
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                    "country": "Germany"
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            "first": "Elisabeth",
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    "abstract": "In this paper, we present a statistical approach for dialogue act processing in the dialogue component of the speech-to-speech translation system VERBMOBIL. Statistics in dialogue processing is used to predict follow-up dialogue acts. As an application example we show how it supports repair when unexpected dialogue states occur.",
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                "text": "In this paper, we present a statistical approach for dialogue act processing in the dialogue component of the speech-to-speech translation system VERBMOBIL. Statistics in dialogue processing is used to predict follow-up dialogue acts. As an application example we show how it supports repair when unexpected dialogue states occur.",
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                "text": "Extracting and processing communicative intentions behind natural language utterances plays an important role in natural language systems (see e.g. (Cohen et al., 1990; Hinkelman and Spackman, 1994) ). Within the speech-to-speech translation system VERBMOBIL (Wahlster, 1993; Kay et al., 1994) , dialogue acts are used as the basis for the treatment of intentions in dialogues. The representation of intentions in the VERBMOBIL system serves two main purposes:",
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                "text": "\u2022 Utilizing the dialogue act of an utterance as an important knowledge source for translation yields a faster and often qualitative better translation than a method that depends on surface expressions only. This is the case especially in the first application of VV.RBMOBIL, the ondemand translation of appointment scheduling dialogues.",
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                "text": "\u2022 Another use of dialogue act processing in VERB-MOBIL is the prediction of follow-up dialogue acts to narrow down the search space on the analysis side. For example, dialogue act predictions are employed to allow for dynamically adaptable language models in word recognition.",
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                "text": "*This work was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Research and Technology (BMBF) in the framework of the Verbmohil Project under Grant 01IV101K/1. The responsibility for the contents of this study lies with the authors. Thanks to Jan Alexandersson for valuable comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper.",
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                "text": "Recent results (e.g. (Niedermair, 1992) ) show a reduction of perplexity in the word recognizer between 19% and 60% when context dependent language models are used.",
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                "text": "DiMogue act determination in VERBMOBIL is done in two ways, depending on the system mode: using deep or shallow processing. These two modes depend on the fact that VERBMOBIL is only translating on demand, i.e. when the user's knowledge of English is not sufficient to participate in a dialogue. If the user of VERBMOBIL needs translation, she presses a button thereby activating deep processing. In depth processing of an utterance takes place in maximally 50% of the dialogue contributions, namely when the owner speaks German only. DiMogue act extraction from a DRS-based semantic representation (Bos et al., 1994) is only possible in this mode and is the task of the semantic evaluation component of VERB-MOBIL.",
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                "text": "In the other processing mode the diMogue component tries to process the English passages of the diMogue by using a keyword spotter that tracks the ongoing dialogue superficiMly. Since the keyword spotter only works reliably for a vocabulary of some ten words, it has to be provided with keywords which typically occur in utterances of the same diMogue act type; for every utterance the dialogue component supplies the keyword spotter with a prediction of the most likely follow-up dialogue act and the situationdependent keywords.",
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                "text": "The dialogue component uses a combination of statistical and knowledge based approaches to process dialogue acts and to maintain and to provide contextual information for the other modules of VERBMOBIL (Maier and McGlashan, 1994) . It includes a robust dialogue plan recognizing module, which uses repair techniques to treat unexpected dialogue steps. The information acquired during dialogue processing is stored in a dialogue memory. This contextual information is decomposed into the intentional structure, the referential structure, and the temporal structure which refers to the dates mentioned in the dialogue.",
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                "text": "An overview of the dialogue component is given in (Alexandersson et al., 1995) . In this paper main emphasis is on statistical dialogue act prediction in VEFtBMOBIL, with an evaluation of the method, and an example of the interaction between plan recognition and statistical dialogue act prediction. Like previous approaches for modeling task-oriented dialogues we assume that a dialogue can be described by means of a limited but open set of dialogue acts (see e.g. (Bilange, 1991) , (Mast et al., 1992) ). We selected the dialogue acts by examining the VERBMOBIL corpus, which consists of transliterated spoken dialogues (German and English) for appointment scheduling. We examined this corpus for the occurrence of dialogue acts as proposed by e.g. (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969) and for the necessity to introduce new, sometimes problem-oriented dialogue acts. We first defined 17 dialogue acts together with semi-formal rules for their assignment to utterances (Maier, 1994) . After one year of experience with these acts, the users of dialogue acts in VERBMOBIL selected them as the domain independent \"upper\" concepts within a more elaborate hierarchy that becomes more and more propositional and domain dependent towards its leaves (Jekat et al., 1995) . Such a hierarchy is useful e.g. for translation purposes. Following the assignment rules, which also served as starting point for the automatic determination of dialogue acts within the semantic evaluation component, we hand-annotated over 200 dialogues with dialogue act information to make this information available for training and test purposes. Figure 1 shows the domain independent dialogue acts and the transition networks which define admissible sequences of dialogue acts. In addition to the dialogue acts in the main dialogue network, there are five dialogue acts, which we call deviations, that can occur at any point of the dialogue. They are represented in an additional subnetwork which is shown at the bottom of figure 1. The networks serve as the basis for the implementation of a parser which determines whether an incoming dialogue act is compatible with the dialogue model.",
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                "text": "This paper presents the method for statistical dialogue act prediction currently used in the dialogue component of VERBMOBIL. It presents plan repair as one example of its use. The analysis of the statistical method shows that the prediction algorithm shows satisfactory results when deviations from the main dialogue model are excluded. If dialogue acts for deviations are included, the prediction rate drops around 10%. The analysis of the hit rate shows also a large variation in the structure of the dialogues from the corpus. We currently integrate the speaker direction into the prediction process which results in a gain of up to 5 % in the prediction hit rate. Additionally, we investigate methods to cluster training dialogues in classes with a similar structure.",
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