On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels

arXiv:2607.15648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-party dialogues between a dialogue system and multiple users, identifying to whom an utterance is addressed is a key challenge. Prior work has typically treated addressee detection as a multi-class classification task, selecting a single label representing an individual participant or the group. This formulation assumes that address is inherently discrete and has primarily been used for predicting turn-taking. In this paper, we revisit thi...