  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
