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  <Title>Multi-level Dialogue Act Tags</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we discuss the use of multi-layered tagsets for dialogue acts, in the context of dialogue understanding for multi-party meeting recording and retrieval applications. We discuss some desiderata for such tagsets and critically examine some previous proposals. We then de ne MAL-TUS, a new tagset based on the ICSI-MR and Switchboard tagsets, which satis es these requirements. We present some experiments using MALTUS which attempt to compare the merits of integrated versus multi-level classi ers for the detection of dialogue acts.</Paragraph>
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