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EMNLP
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Skip-Chain Conditional Random Field for Ranking Meeting Utterances by Importance
We describe a probabilistic approach to content selection for meeting summarization. We use skipchain Conditional Random Fields (CRF) to model non-local pragmatic dependencies bet...
Michel Galley
EMNLP
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Lexicon Acquisition for Dialectal Arabic Using Transductive Learning
We investigate the problem of learning a part-of-speech (POS) lexicon for a resource-poor language, dialectal Arabic. Developing a high-quality lexicon is often the first step tow...
Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff
EMNLP
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Random Indexing using Statistical Weight Functions
Random Indexing is a vector space technique that provides an efficient and scalable approximation to distributional similarity problems. We present experiments showing Random Inde...
James Gorman, James R. Curran
EMNLP
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis
In this paper we study the utility of discourse structure for spoken dialogue performance modeling. We experiment with various ways of exploiting the discourse structure: in isola...
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman
EMNLP
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Identification of Event Mentions and their Semantic Class
Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related ta...
Steven Bethard, James H. Martin