Joint Modeling of Content and Discourse Relations in Dialogues

Kechen Qin, Lu Wang, Joseph Kim


Abstract
We present a joint modeling approach to identify salient discussion points in spoken meetings as well as to label the discourse relations between speaker turns. A variation of our model is also discussed when discourse relations are treated as latent variables. Experimental results on two popular meeting corpora show that our joint model can outperform state-of-the-art approaches for both phrase-based content selection and discourse relation prediction tasks. We also evaluate our model on predicting the consistency among team members’ understanding of their group decisions. Classifiers trained with features constructed from our model achieve significant better predictive performance than the state-of-the-art.
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P17-1090
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Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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974–984
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https://aclanthology.org/P17-1090
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-1090
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Kechen Qin, Lu Wang, and Joseph Kim. 2017. Joint Modeling of Content and Discourse Relations in Dialogues. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 974–984, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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