A Survey of Arabic Dialogues Understanding for Spontaneous Dialogues and Instant Message

TL;DR

This paper surveys techniques for Arabic dialogue understanding, focusing on dialogue act classification, segmentation, annotation schemas, and test corpora, addressing the gap in resources compared to English dialogue systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of existing methods and resources for Arabic dialogue act classification, highlighting current challenges and research directions.

Findings

Reviewed various segmentation and classification techniques

Summarized annotation schemas and test corpora for Arabic dialogues

Identified gaps and future research needs in Arabic dialogue systems

Abstract

Building dialogues systems interaction has recently gained considerable attention, but most of the resources and systems built so far are tailored to English and other Indo-European languages. The need for designing systems for other languages is increasing such as Arabic language. For this reasons, there are more interest for Arabic dialogue acts classification task because it a key player in Arabic language understanding to building this systems. This paper surveys different techniques for dialogue acts classification for Arabic. We describe the main existing techniques for utterances segmentations and classification, annotation schemas, and test corpora for Arabic dialogues understanding that have introduced in the literature