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2009
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Latent Biographic Attributes in Conversational Genres
This paper presents and evaluates several original techniques for the latent classification of biographic attributes such as gender, age and native language, in diverse genres (co...
Nikesh Garera, David Yarowsky
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Extracting Lexical Reference Rules from Wikipedia
This paper describes the extraction from Wikipedia of lexical reference rules, identifying references to term meanings triggered by other terms. We present extraction methods gear...
Eyal Shnarch, Libby Barak, Ido Dagan
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Topological Field Parsing of German
Freer-word-order languages such as German exhibit linguistic phenomena that present unique challenges to traditional CFG parsing. Such phenomena produce discontinuous constituents...
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT
We investigate the use of Fisher's exact significance test for pruning the translation table of a hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation system. In additio...
Mei Yang, Jing Zheng
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting Barge-in Utterance Errors by using Implicitly-Supervised ASR Accuracy and Barge-in Rate per User
Modeling of individual users is a promising way of improving the performance of spoken dialogue systems deployed for the general public and utilized repeatedly. We define "im...
Kazunori Komatani, Alexander I. Rudnicky