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2009
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Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System
We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study in which na
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois Knoll
ACL
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Comparing the Accuracy of CCG and Penn Treebank Parsers
We compare the CCG parser of Clark and Curran (2007) with a state-of-the-art Penn Treebank (PTB) parser. An accuracy comparison is performed by converting the CCG derivations into...
Stephen Clark, James R. Curran
ACL
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Predicting Unknown Time Arguments based on Cross-Event Propagation
Many events in news articles don't include time arguments. This paper describes two methods, one based on rules and the other based on statistical learning, to predict the un...
Prashant Gupta, Heng Ji
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ACL
2009
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Syntax is from Mars while Semantics from Venus! Insights from Spectral Analysis of Distributional Similarity Networks
We study the global topology of the syntactic and semantic distributional similarity networks for English through the technique of spectral analysis. We observe that while the syn...
Chris Biemann, Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherje...
ACL
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Automatic Satire Detection: Are You Having a Laugh?
We introduce the novel task of determining whether a newswire article is "true" or satirical. We experiment with SVMs, feature scaling, and a number of lexical and seman...
Clint Burfoot, Timothy Baldwin