In the present work we used a word clustering algorithm based on the perplexity criterion, in a Dialogue Act detection framework
in order to model the structure of the speech of a user at a dialogue system. Specifically, we constructed an n-gram based
model for each target Dialogue Act, computed over the word classes. Then we evaluated the performance of our dialogue system
on ten different types of dialogue acts, using an annotated database which contains 1,403,985 unique words. The results were
very promising since we achieved about 70% of accuracy using trigram based models.