What Speakers really Mean when they Ask Questions: Classification of Intentions with a Supervised Approach (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on hidden intentions of speakers in questions during meals is based on written or oral data, which are less easy to interpret. |
| Approach: | They propose a typology of hidden intentions in questions asked during meals . they implement an automatic classification model based on annotated data and selected linguistic features. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on annotated data and features and evaluates its performance. |
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