Adaptation of Hierarchical Structured Models for Speech Act Recognition in Asynchronous Conversation (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | asynchronous domains lack large labeled datasets to train an effective speech act recognition model. |
| Approach: | They propose methods to leverage abundant unlabeled conversational data and available labeled data from synchronous domains to train an effective SAR model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods when trained on in-domain data only. |
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