Espnet-slu: Advancing spoken language understanding through espnet

S Arora, S Dalmia, P Denisov, X Chang… - ICASSP 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Automatic Speech Processing (ASR) systems are getting better, there is an increasing
interest of using the ASR output to do downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) …

Modeling feedback in interaction with conversational agents—a review

A Axelsson, H Buschmeier, G Skantze - Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

Dialogbert: Discourse-aware response generation via learning to recover and rank utterances

X Gu, KM Yoo, JW Ha - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Recent advances in pre-trained language models have significantly improved neural
response generation. However, existing methods usually view the dialogue context as a …

Dialogue act classification with context-aware self-attention

V Raheja, J Tetreault - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02594, 2019 - arxiv.org
Recent work in Dialogue Act classification has treated the task as a sequence labeling
problem using hierarchical deep neural networks. We build on this prior work by leveraging …

A context-based approach for dialogue act recognition using simple recurrent neural networks

C Bothe, C Weber, S Magg, S Wermter - arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06280, 2018 - arxiv.org
Dialogue act recognition is an important part of natural language understanding. We
investigate the way dialogue act corpora are annotated and the learning approaches used …

HAM-GNN: A hierarchical attention-based multi-dimensional edge graph neural network for dialogue act classification

C Fu, Y Su, K Su, Y Liu, J Shi, B Wu, C Liu… - Expert Systems with …, 2025 - Elsevier
Dialogue act (DA) analysis is crucial for developing natural conversational systems and
dialogue generation. Modelling DA labels at the utterance-level requires contextual and …

Predicting Client Emotions and Therapist Interventions in Psychotherapy Dialogues

T Mayer, N Warikoo, A Eliassaf… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Natural Language Processing (NLP) can advance psychotherapy research by
scaling up therapy dialogue analysis as well as by allowing researchers to examine client …

What helps transformers recognize conversational structure? Importance of context, punctuation, and labels in dialog act recognition

P Żelasko, R Pappagari, N Dehak - Transactions of the Association …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Dialog acts can be interpreted as the atomic units of a conversation, more fine-grained than
utterances, characterized by a specific communicative function. The ability to structure a …

Speaker-change aware CRF for dialogue act classification

G Shang, AJP Tixier, M Vazirgiannis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Recent work in Dialogue Act (DA) classification approaches the task as a sequence labeling
problem, using neural network models coupled with a Conditional Random Field (CRF) as …

Self-governing neural networks for on-device short text classification

S Ravi, Z Kozareva - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
Deep neural networks reach state-of-the-art performance for wide range of natural language
processing, computer vision and speech applications. Yet, one of the biggest challenges is …