We present a method for extracting selectional preferences of verbs from unannotated text. These selectional preferences are linked to an ontology (e.g. the hypernym relations foun...
When building a new spoken dialogue application, large amounts of domain specific data are required. This paper addresses the issue of generating in-domain training data when litt...
This paper proposes an unsupervised lexicon building method for the detection of polar clauses, which convey positive or negative aspects in a specific domain. The lexical entries...
This paper describes a probabilistic model for coordination disambiguation integrated into syntactic and case structure analysis. Our model probabilistically assesses the parallel...
Ambiguity in the output is a concern for NLG in general. This paper considers the case of structural ambiguity in spoken language generation. We present an algorithm which inserts ...