The effect of laughter on dialogue act recognition

• Event: Seminar
• Lecturer: Vladislav Maraev and Bill Noble
• Date: 26 February 2020
• Duration: 2 hours
• Venue: Gothenburg

We investigate how useful BERT is for dialogue act recognition. We analyse benefit of BERT’s pre-training procedure and the importance of fine-tuning in the dialogue setting. To confirm that the model learns to represent dialogical features, we look at how it uses laughter, a phenomenon specific to dialogue, and analyse where laughter is most helpful for dialogue act recognition.