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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Identifying Repair Targets in Action Control Dialogue
This paper proposes a method for dealing with repairs in action control dialogue to resolve participants' misunderstanding. The proposed method identifies the repair target b...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Annotation for All Semantic Layers in FrameNet
We describe a system for automatic annotation of English text in the FrameNet standard. In addition to the conventional annotation of frame elements and their semantic roles, we a...
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Segmentation of Multiparty Dialogue
In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically predicting segment boundaries in spoken multiparty dialogue. We extend prior work in two ways. We first apply approaches...
Pei-yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore, Steve Renals
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Classifying Biological Full-Text Articles for Multi-Database Curation
In this paper, we propose an approach for identifying curatable articles from a large document set. This system considers three parts of an article (title ract, MeSH terms, and ca...
Wen-Juan Hou, Chih Lee, Hsin-Hsi Chen
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Automatically Constructing a Lexicon of Verb Phrase Idiomatic Combinations
We investigate the lexical and syntactic flexibility of a class of idiomatic expressions. We develop measures that draw on such linguistic properties, and demonstrate that these s...
Afsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis with Principal Component Analysis
Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) models have been shown to provide a better model for capturing polysemy and synonymy than Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). However, th...
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Determining Term Subjectivity and Term Orientation for Opinion Mining
Opinion mining is a recent subdiscipline of computational linguistics which is concerned not with the topic a document is about, but with the opinion it expresses. To aid the extr...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Recognizing Textual Parallelisms with Edit Distance and Similarity Degree
Detection of discourse structure is crucial in many text-based applications. This paper presents an original framework for describing textual parallelism which allows us to genera...
Marie Guégan, Nicolas Hernandez
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
From Detecting Errors to Automatically Correcting Them
Faced with the problem of annotation errors in part-of-speech (POS) annotated corpora, we develop a method for automatically correcting such errors. Building on top of a successfu...
Markus Dickinson