ISCA Archive SSPR 2003
ISCA Archive SSPR 2003

Committee-based discourse purpose assignment: Discourse structure annotations of spontaneous Japanese monologue

Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Katsuya Takanashi, Ikuyo Morimoto, Hanae Koiso, Hitoshi Isahara

Identifying the regularity of middle level discourse is useful for annotating discourse structure in long monologues. A convincing way to find segments is described on the middle level of discourse structure (sub-story), based on a committee-based decision of discourse purposes and a detection of transitive expressions.