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2008

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The Role of Positive Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

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The focus of this study is positive feedback in one-on-one tutoring, its computational modeling, and its application to the design of more effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ...

Davide Fossati

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2008

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Combining Source and Target Language Information for Name Tagging of Machine Translation Output

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A Named Entity Recognizer (NER) generally has worse performance on machine translated text, because of the poor syntax of the MT output and other errors in the translation. As som...

Shasha Liao

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ACL
2007

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Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval

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We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...

Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...

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2008

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An Unsupervised Vector Approach to Biomedical Term Disambiguation: Integrating UMLS and Medline

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This paper introduces an unsupervised vector approach to disambiguate words in biomedical text that can be applied to all-word disambiguation. We explore using contextual informat...

Bridget McInnes

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2007

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Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method

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In this paper we investigate named entity transliteration based on a phonetic scoring method. The phonetic method is computed using phonetic features and carefully designed pseudo...

Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim, Richard Sproat

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2008

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A Supervised Learning Approach to Automatic Synonym Identification Based on Distributional Features

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Distributional similarity has been widely used to capture the semantic relatedness of words in many NLP tasks. However, various parameters such as similarity measures must be hand...

Masato Hagiwara

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2007

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Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction

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We propose a bootstrapping approach to training a memoriless stochastic transducer for the task of extracting transliterations from an English-Arabic bitext. The transducer learns...

Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak

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2008

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Impact of Initiative on Collaborative Problem Solving

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Even though collaboration in peer learning has been shown to have a positive impact for students, there has been little research into collaborative peer learning dialogues. We ana...

Cynthia Kersey

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2007

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Text Analysis for Automatic Image Annotation

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