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Unsupervised Dialogue Act Classification with Optimum-Path Forest

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Author(s):
Felix Ribeiro, Luiz Carlos ; Papa, Joao Paulo ; IEEE
Total Authors: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: PROCEEDINGS 2018 31ST SIBGRAPI CONFERENCE ON GRAPHICS, PATTERNS AND IMAGES (SIBGRAPI); v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2018-01-01.
Abstract

Dialogue Act classification is a relevant problem for the Natural Language Processing field either as a standalone task or when used as input for downstream applications. Despite its importance, most of the existing approaches rely on supervised techniques, which depend on annotated samples, making it difficult to take advantage of the increasing amount of data available in different domains. In this paper, we briefly review the most commonly used datasets to evaluate Dialogue Act classification approaches and introduce the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) classifier to this task. Instead of using its original strategy to determine the corresponding class for each cluster, we use a modified version based on majority voting, named M-OPF, which yields good results when compared to k-means and Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN), according to accuracy and V-measure. We also show that M-OPF, and consequently OPF, are less sensitive to hyper-parameter tuning when compared to HDBSCAN. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/07375-0 - CeMEAI - Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry
Grantee:Francisco Louzada Neto
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC
FAPESP's process: 14/12236-1 - AnImaLS: Annotation of Images in Large Scale: what can machines and specialists learn from interaction?
Grantee:Alexandre Xavier Falcão
Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
FAPESP's process: 14/16250-9 - On the parameter optimization in machine learning techniques: advances and paradigms
Grantee:João Paulo Papa
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
FAPESP's process: 16/19403-6 - Energy-based learning models and their applications
Grantee:João Paulo Papa
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants