The use of figurative language is ubiquitous in natural language texts and it is a serious bottleneck in automatic text understanding. We address the problem of interpretation of ...
This paper describes a hybrid tagger/parser for French (FrAG), and presents results from ongoing development work, corpus annotation and evaluation. The core of the system is a se...
Abstract. In many applications of natural language processing (NLP) it is necessary to determine the likelihood of a given word combination. For example, a speech recognizer may ne...
The automatic recognition of user’s communicative style within a spoken dialog system framework, including the affective aspects, has received increased attention in the past f...
Serdar Yildirim, Shrikanth Narayanan, Alexandros P...
This paper describes an approach for computing a consensus translation from the outputs of multiple machine translation (MT) systems. The consensus translation is computed by weigh...
Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Rafael E. Banchs, N...