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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
To tackle the problem of presenting a large number of options in spoken dialogue systems, we identify compelling options based on a model of user preferences, and present tradeoff...
Vera Demberg, Johanna D. Moore
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Acronym Recognition
This paper deals with the problem of recognizing and extracting acronymdefinition pairs in Swedish medical texts. This project applies a rule-based method to solve the acronym rec...
Dana Dannélls
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Esfinge a Question Answering System in the Web using the Web
Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to take advantage of the great amount of information existent in the World Wide Web. Since Portuguese is...
Luís Fernando Costa
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Figure of Merit for the Evaluation of Web-Corpus Randomness
In this paper, we present an automated, quantitative, knowledge-poor method to evaluate the randomness of a collection of documents (corpus), with respect to a number of biased pa...
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Marco Baroni
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Parsing Arabic Dialects
David Chiang, Mona T. Diab, Nizar Habash, Owen Ram...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Syntactically Motivated Word Alignment Spaces
This work is concerned with the space of alignments searched by word alignment systems. We focus on situations where word re-ordering is limited by syntax. We present two new alig...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Multilingual Term Extraction from Domain-specific Corpora Using Morphological Structure
Morphologically complex terms composed from Greek or Latin elements are frequent in scientific and technical texts. Word forming units are thus relevant cues for the identificatio...
Delphine Bernhard
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Comparing Automatic and Human Evaluation of NLG Systems
We consider the evaluation problem in Natural Language Generation (NLG) and present results for evaluating several NLG systems with similar functionality, including a knowledge-ba...
Anja Belz, Ehud Reiter
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Web-based Demonstrator of a Multi-lingual Phrase-based Translation System
This paper describes a multi-lingual phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation system accessible by means of a Web page. The user can issue translation requests from Arabic, Ch...
Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, B...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Large Linguistically-Processed Web Corpora for Multiple Languages
The Web contains vast amounts of linguistic data. One key issue for linguists and language technologists is how to access it. Commercial search engines give highly compromised acc...
Marco Baroni, Adam Kilgarriff