  The Magellanic clouds are uniquely placed to study the stellar contribution
to dust emission. Individual stars can be resolved in these systems even in the
mid-infrared, and they are close enough to allow detection of infrared excess
caused by dust.We have searched the Spitzer Space Telescope data archive for
all Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) staring-mode observations of the Small
Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and found that 209 Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) point
sources within the footprint of the Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in
the Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC) Spitzer Legacy programme were targeted,
within a total of 311 staring mode observations. We classify these point
sources using a decision tree method of object classification, based on
infrared spectral features, continuum and spectral energy distribution shape,
bolometric luminosity, cluster membership and variability information. We find
58 asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, 51 young stellar objects (YSOs), 4
post-AGB objects, 22 Red Supergiants (RSGs), 27 stars (of which 23 are dusty OB
stars), 24 planetary nebulae (PNe), 10Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars, 3 Hii regions, 3 R
Coronae Borealis (R CrB) stars, 1 Blue Supergiant and 6 other objects,
including 2 foreground AGB stars. We use these classifications to evaluate the
success of photometric classification methods reported in the literature.
