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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling
We present Quantized Contour Modeling (QCM), a Bayesian approach to the classification of acoustic contours. We evaluate the performance of this technique in the classification of...
Andrew Rosenberg
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers
We describe a Bayesian inference algorithm that can be used to train any cascade of weighted finite-state transducers on end-toend data. We also investigate the problem of automat...
David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Adam ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Utility Evaluation of Cross-document Information Extraction
We describe a utility evaluation to determine whether cross-document information extraction (IE) techniques measurably improve user performance in news summary writing. Two groups...
Heng Ji, Zheng Chen, Jonathan Feldman, Antonio Gon...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Hybrid Morphologically Decomposed Factored Language Models for Arabic LVCSR
In this work, we try a hybrid methodology for language modeling where both morphological decomposition and factored language modeling (FLM) are exploited to deal with the complex ...
Amr El-Desoky, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains
This paper analyzes the topic identification stage of single-document automatic text summarization across four different domains, consisting of newswire, literary, scientific and ...
Hakan Ceylan, Rada Mihalcea, Umut O'zertem, Elena ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users
This paper introduces a system designed for automatically generating personalized annotation tags to label Twitter user's interests and concerns. We applied TFIDF ranking and...
Wei Wu, Bin Zhang, Mari Ostendorf
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluation Metrics for the Lexical Substitution Task
We identify some problems of the evaluation metrics used for the English Lexical Substitution Task of SemEval-2007, and propose alternative metrics that avoid these problems, whic...
Sanaz Jabbari, Mark Hepple, Louise Guthrie
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration
Image annotation, the task of automatically generating description words for a picture, is a key component in various image search and retrieval applications. Creating image datab...
Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the Multilingual User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name Search
Although Wikipedia has emerged as a powerful collaborative Encyclopedia on the Web, it is only partially multilingual as most of the content is in English and a small number of ot...
Raghavendra Udupa, Mitesh M. Khapra
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion
In this paper we propose a novel general framework for unsupervised model adaptation. Our method is based on entropy which has been used previously as a regularizer in semi-superv...
Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy, B...