ISCA Archive ISCSLP 2000
ISCA Archive ISCSLP 2000

The Analysis of Copus Oriented Spoken Chinese Dialog Understanding

Yun Zhou, Taiyi Huang, Bing Zhao

Such issues as dialog structure, dialog act analysis, turn segmentation (that is, segment a turn into several sentences or utterance units) have not yet been successfully resolved, especially in spoken Chinese dialog. Our corpus consists of 94(more than 3,000 turns) telephone-recorded Chinese humanhuman dialogues in the domain of room reservation.In this paper, we give some results of analysis of the corpus. We concentrate on four important phenomena in spoken Chinese: sentences hyperbaton, sentence fragment, speech repair, cue phrase. These four phenomena, we think, are essential for turn segmentation as well as other problems.