We seek to automatically estimate typical durations for events and habits described in Twitter tweets. A corpus of more than 14 million tweets containing temporal duration informa...
This paper presents grammar error correction for Japanese particles that uses discriminative sequence conversion, which corrects erroneous particles by substitution, insertion, an...
We present a component for incremental speech synthesis (iSS) and a set of applications that demonstrate its capabilities. This component can be used to increase the responsivity ...
This paper proposes a method to extract product features from user reviews and generate a review summary. This method only relies on product specifications, which usually are easy...
This paper proposes a novel semisupervised word alignment technique called EMDC that integrates discriminative and generative methods. A discriminative aligner is used to find hig...