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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Semantic Role Classification with Selectional Preferences
This work incorporates Selectional Preferences (SP) into a Semantic Role (SR) Classification system. We learn separate selectional preferences for noun phrases and prepositional p...
Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluís ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Data Driven Dependency Parsing using Clausal Information
Phani Gadde, Karan Jindal, Samar Husain, Dipti Mis...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Task-based Evaluation of Multiword Expressions: a Pilot Study in Statistical Machine Translation
We conduct a pilot study for task-oriented evaluation of Multiword Expression (MWE) in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We propose two different integration strategies for M...
Marine Carpuat, Mona Diab
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Helping Our Own: Text Massaging for Computational Linguistics as a New Shared Task
In this paper, we propose a new shared task called HOO: Helping Our Own. The aim is to use tools and techniques developed in computational linguistics to help people writing about...
Robert Dale, Adam Kilgarriff
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Tools for Multilingual Grammar-Based Translation on the Web
This is a system demo for a set of tools for translating texts between multiple languages in real time with high quality. The translation works on restricted languages, and is bas...
Aarne Ranta, Krasimir Angelov, Thomas Hallgren
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Grammar Prototyping and Testing with the LinGO Grammar Matrix Customization System
This demonstration presents the LinGO Grammar Matrix grammar customization system: a repository of distilled linguistic knowledge and a web-based service which elicits a typologic...
Emily M. Bender, Scott Drellishak, Antske Fokkens,...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Demonstration of a Prototype for a Conversational Companion for Reminiscing about Images
This paper describes an initial prototype demonstrator of a Companion, designed as a platform for novel approaches to the following: 1) The use of Information Extraction (IE) tech...
Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, We...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Talking NPCs in a Virtual Game World
This paper describes the KomParse system, a natural-language dialog system in the three-dimensional virtual world Twinity. In order to fulfill the various communication demands be...
Tina Klüwer, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Us...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Hunting for the Black Swan: Risk Mining from Text
In the business world, analyzing and dealing with risk permeates all decisions and actions. However, to date, risk identification, the first step in the risk management cycle, has...
Jochen L. Leidner, Frank Schilder
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Personalising Speech-To-Speech Translation in the EMIME Project
In the EMIME project we have studied unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation. We have employed an HMM statistical framework for both speech recognition and synthesis which p...
Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N....