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NAACL
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
NAACL
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, Mari Ostendorf
NAACL
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web
There are a lot of differences between expressions used in written language and spoken language. It is one of the reasons why speech synthesis applications are prone to produce un...
Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Okamoto, Sadao Kurohashi
NAACL
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources
We examine the utility of multiple types of turn-level and contextual linguistic features for automatically predicting student emotions in human-human spoken tutoring dialogues. W...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman
NAACL
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty
We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. W...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan
Computational Linguistics
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