Ritter et al NAACL 2010. Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations
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Citation
Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry, and Bill Dolan. Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations. In Proc of NAACL 2010
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Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations.
Summary
This Paper describes a topic model based approach to model dialogue acts. Whereas previous work has often required the manual construction of a dialogue act inventory, this paper proposes a series of unsupervised conversation models, where the discovery of acts amounts to clustering utterances with similar conversational roles.
Brief description of the method
Experimental Result
Data: The corpus consists of about 1.3 million conversations in a 2 month period during the summer of 2009, with each conversation containing between 2 and 243 posts. The dataset was formerly available at http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aritter/twitter_chat/ (asked by Twitter to be taken down).
Discussion
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The conversation model is inspired by Barzilay and Lee. (2004)