A Study of a Segmentation Technique for Dialogue Act Assignation (short paper)

A dialogue system is usually defined as a computer system that interacts with a human user to achieve a task using dialogue [5]. In these systems, the computer must know the meaning and intention of the user input, in order to give the appropriate answer. The user turns must be interpreted by the system, taking only into account the essential information, i.e, their semantics for the dialogue process and the task to be accomplished. This information is usually represented by labels called Dialogue Acts (DA) [2] which label different segments of the turn known as utterances [8]. The DA labels usually take into account the semantics of the utterance with respect to the dialogue process, but they can include semantic information related to the task the dialogue is about.