We propose a gold standard for evaluating two types of information extraction output -- noun phrase (NP) chunks (Abney 1991; Ramshaw and Marcus 1995) and technical terms (Justeson...
We address the text-to-text generation problem of sentence-level paraphrasing — a phenomenon distinct from and more difficult than word- or phrase-level paraphrasing. Our appro...
Story link detection has been regarded as a core technology for other Topic Detection and Tracking tasks such as new event detection. In this paper we analyze story link detection...
Previous work on minimizing weighted finite-state automata (including transducers) is limited to particular types of weights. We present efficient new minimization algorithms th...
To support summarization of automatically transcribed meetings, we introduce a classifier to recognize agreement or disagreement utterances, utilizing both word-based and prosodi...
Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, Elizabeth Shriberg