Automatic Agenda Graph Construction From Human-Human Dialogs Using Clustering Method

  • Cheongjae Lee ,
  • Sangkeun Jung ,
  • Sungjin Lee ,
  • Kyungduk Kim ,
  • Gary Geunbae Lee

NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers |

Various knowledge sources are used for spoken dialog systems such as task model, domain model, and agenda. An agenda graph is one of the knowledge sources for a dialog management to reflect a discourse structure. This paper proposes a clustering and linking method to automatically construct an agenda graph from human-human dialogs. Preliminary evaluation shows our approach would be helpful to reduce human efforts in designing prior knowledge.