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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Semantic Role Labeling for Coreference Resolution
Extending a machine learning based coreference resolution system with a feature capturing automatically generated information about semantic roles improves its performance.
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Example-Based Metonymy Recognition for Proper Nouns
Metonymy recognition is generally approached with complex algorithms that rely heavily on the manual annotation of training and test data. This paper will relieve this complexity ...
Yves Peirsman
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Selecting the "Right" Number of Senses Based on Clustering Criterion Functions
This paper describes an unsupervised knowledge
Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Information Structure and Pauses in a Corpus of Spoken Danish
This paper describes a study in which a corpus of spoken Danish annotated with focus and topic tags was used to investigate the relation between information structure and pauses. ...
Patrizia Paggio
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Robust Animacy Classification Using Morphosyntactic Distributional Features
This paper presents results from experiments in automatic classification of animacy for Norwegian nouns using decision-tree classifiers. The method makes use of relative frequency...
Lilja Øvrelid
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Constraints on Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
We investigate a series of graph-theoretic constraints on non-projective dependency parsing and their effect on expressivity, i.e. whether they allow naturally occurring syntactic...
Joakim Nivre
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Detection of Nonreferential It in Spoken Multi-Party Dialog
We present an implemented machine learning system for the automatic detection of nonreferential it in spoken dialog. The system builds on shallow features extracted from dialog tr...
Christoph Müller