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AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Assessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting
We present in this paper an approach to assessing student paraphrases in the intelligent tutoring system iSTART. The approach is based on measuring the semantic similarity between ...
Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, ...
AMW
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Run-time Optimization for Pipelined Systems
Traditional optimizers fail to pick good execution plans, when faced with increasingly complex queries and large data sets. This failure is even more acute in the context of XQuery...
Riham Abdel Kader, Maurice van Keulen, Peter A. Bo...
LREC
2010
159views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Optimal TTS Corpora
Unit selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthesized phrases by concatenating speech segments from a large database. Recently, increasing demand for de...
Didier Cadic, Cédric Boidin, Christophe d'A...
LREC
2008
84views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
A Test Suite for Inference Involving Adjectives
Recently, most of the research in NLP has concentrated on the creation of applications coping with textual entailment. However, there still exist very few resources for the evalua...
Marilisa Amoia, Claire Gardent
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Syntactic Patterns for Automatic Hypernym Discovery
Semantic taxonomies such as WordNet provide a rich source of knowledge for natural language processing applications, but are expensive to build, maintain, and extend. Motivated by...
Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng