• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.23-30
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• 2007

화행 분석이란 자연언어로 된 발화를 통해서 나타나는 화자의 의도를 인식하는 것으로 대화를 처리하는 여러 응용 분야에서 중요하게 요구되는 과정이다. 기존의 연구에서는 이전 발화의 화행과 현재 발화의 문장 자질을 사용하여 규칙 기반 및 통계 기반의 연구가 진행되었다. 하지만 본 논문에서는 현재 발화 이후의 후보 화행을 추정하여 이를 현재 발화의 화행을 결정하는데 사용함으로써 기존의 연구와 차별화를 두었으며, 실제로 기존 방법보다 약 4%의 성능향상을 보인 96.08%의 정확도(accuracy)를 보였다. 또한 이전 발화의 화행 정보 대신 이전 화행을 결정하는데 사용했던 문장 자질을 현재 발화의 화행 결정에 직접 사용함으로써 실제 이전 화행을 적용했을 때보다 향상된 성능을 가져왔으며, 이전 문장 자질과 후보 화행을 함께 사용하여 화행을 결정했을 경우 96.96%의 정확도를 보였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.374-385
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• 2008

Speech act tagging is an important step in various dialogue applications, which recognizes speaker's intentions expressed in natural language utterances. Previous approaches such as rule-based and statistics-based methods utilize the speech acts of previous utterances and sentence features of the current utterance. This paper proposes a method that determines speech acts of the current utterance using the speech acts of the following utterances as well as previous ones. Using the features of following utterances yields the accuracy 95.27%, improving previous methods by 3.65%. Moreover, sentence features of the previous utterances are employed to maximally utilize the information available to the current utterance. By applying the proper probability model for each speech act, final accuracy of 97.97% is achieved.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.297-310
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• 2008

Since speech acts implies speakers' intentions, it is essential to determine speakers' speech acts if we want to implement an intelligent dialogue system. We propose a two-step model for effectively determining speakers' speech acts. In the first step, the proposed model returns speech act candidates by using a neural network model based on machine learning and a predictivity model based on statistics, respectively. In the second step, using speech act candidates which are returned by the predictivity model, the proposed model filters out speech act candidates which are returned by the neural network model. Then, the proposed model selects a speech act with maximum output value among the unremoved speech act candidates. In the experiment on a schedule management domain, the proposed two-step modeling method showed better precisions than the previous methods only using a machine learning model or a probability model.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.80-86
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• 2016

A speech-act is a behavior intended by users in an utterance. Speech-act classification is important in a dialogue system. The machine learning and rule-based methods have mainly been used for speech-act classification. In this paper, we propose a speech-act classification method based on the combination of support vector machine (SVM) and transformation-based learning (TBL). The user's utterance is first classified by SVM that is preferentially applied to categories with a low utterance rate in training data. Next, when an utterance has negative scores throughout the whole of the categories, the utterance is applied to the correction phase by rules. The results from our method were higher performance over the baseline system long with error-reduction.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.421-437
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• 2009

A chatting system is a computer program that simulates conversations between a human and a computer using natural language. In this paper, we propose a statistical model to generate natural chatting sentences when keywords and speech acts are input. The proposed model first finds Eojeols (Korean spacing units) including input keywords from a corpus, and generate sentence candidates by using appearance information and syntactic information of Eojeols surrounding the found Eojeols. Then, the proposed model selects one among the sentence candidates by using a language model based on speech act information, co-occurrence information between Eojeols, and syntactic information of each Eojeol. In the experiment, the proposed model showed the better correct sentence generation rate of 86.2% than a previous conventional model based on a simple language model.