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To detect and describe categories in a given set of utterances without supervision, one may apply clustering to a space therein representing the utterances as vectors. This paper compares hard and fuzzy word clustering approaches applied to ‘almost’ unsupervised utterance categorization for a technical support dialog system. Here, ‘almost’ means that only one sample utterance is given per category to allow for objectively evaluating the performance of the clustering techniques. For this purpose, categorization accuracy of the respective techniques are measured against a manually annotated test corpus of more than 3000 utterances.
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Albalate, A., Suendermann, D. (2008). Hard vs. Fuzzy Clustering for Speech Utterance Categorization. In: André, E., Dybkjær, L., Minker, W., Neumann, H., Pieraccini, R., Weber, M. (eds) Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems. PIT 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5078. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69369-7_11
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