We present in this paper a new classification approach for identifying questions during human-machine interactions and more specifically in dialogue systems. The difficulty in this task is first to be domainindependent, reusable whatever the dialogue application and second to be capable of a real time processing, in order to fit with the needs of reactivity in dialogue systems. The task is then different than that of question classification usually addressed in question-answering systems. We propose in this paper a hierarchical classifier in two steps, filtering first question/no-question utterances and second the type of the question. Our method reaches a f-score of 98% for the first step and 97% for the second one, representing the state of the art for this task.
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