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  <Title>Lexical, Prosodic, and Syntactic Cues for Dialog Acts</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This work is still preliminary, but we have some tentative conclusions. First, lexical knowledge clearly plays a role in distinguishing these five dialog acts, despite the wide-spread ambiguity of words such as yeah. Second, prosodic knowledge plays a role in DA identification for certain DA types, while lexical cues may be sufficient for the remainder. Finally, our investigation of the syntax of assessments suggests that at least some dialog acts have a very constrained syntactic realization, a per-dialog act 'microsyntax'. null</Paragraph>
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