Corpora: speech acts and Brill's algorithm

[Mary Elaine Califf]

Ken Samuel did some work on applying some form of TBL to dialog tagging a
few years back.  I don't know whether his system is available.

Mary Elaine Califf

At 01:34 PM 4/3/2002 -0500, Matthew T. Bell wrote:
>Hi --
>
>I'm investigating applying Brill's algorithm (transformation based
>learning) or some other rule learning system to classifying speech acts,
>comparing those against a simple n-gram approach.  Does anyone know if
>some version of Brill's algorithm has already been applied to this task,
>and if so if the system is already available?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>
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