Comparing word, character, and phoneme n-grams for subjective utterance recognition

In this paper, we compare the performance of classifiers trained using word n-grams, character n-grams, and phoneme n-grams for recognizing subjective utterances in multiparty conversation. We show that there is value in using very shallow linguistic representations, such as character n-grams, for recognizing subjective utterances, in particular, gains in the recall of subjective utterances. Copyright © 2008 ISCA.

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