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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Determining the user intent of web search engine queries
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
IUI
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting emotions to disambiguate dialogue acts
This paper describes an attempt to reveal the user’s intention from dialogue acts, thereby improving the effectiveness of natural interfaces to pedagogical agents. It focuses o...
Wauter Bosma, Elisabeth André
ACL
1998
13 years 10 months ago
A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems
The Natural Language Understanding Engine Test Environment (ETE) is a GUI software tool that aids in the development and maintenance of large, modular, natural language understand...
Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C....
EMNLP
2010
13 years 6 months ago
PEM: A Paraphrase Evaluation Metric Exploiting Parallel Texts
We present PEM, the first fully automatic metric to evaluate the quality of paraphrases, and consequently, that of paraphrase generation systems. Our metric is based on three crit...
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng
NIPS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Natural Language Grammar Induction Using a Constituent-Context Model
This paper presents a novel approach to the unsupervised learning of syntactic analyses of natural language text. Most previous work has focused on maximizing likelihood according...
Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning