Context-based speech act classification in intelligent tutoring systems
Abstract
In intelligent tutoring systems with natural language dialogue, speech act classification, the task of detecting learners' intentions, informs the system's response mechanism. In this paper, we propose supervised machine learning models for speech act classification in the context of an online collaborative learning game environment. We explore the role of context (i.e. speech acts of previous utterances) for speech act classification. We compare speech act classification models trained and tested with contextual and non-contextual features (contents of the current utterance). The accuracy of the proposed models is high. A surprising finding is the modest role of context in automatically predicting the speech acts. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Publication Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Recommended Citation
Samei, B., Li, H., Keshtkar, F., Rus, V., & Graesser, A. (2014). Context-based speech act classification in intelligent tutoring systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8474 LNCS, 236-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_28
