A Survey of Arabic Dialogues Understanding for Spontaneous Dialogues and Instant Message
It provides a review for researchers working on Arabic language processing, but it is incremental as it summarizes existing work without new results.
This paper surveys existing techniques for dialogue acts classification in Arabic, addressing the lack of resources for non-Indo-European languages like Arabic in dialogue systems.
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