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NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
Topic Segmentation : A First Stage to Dialog-Based Information Extraction
We study the problem of topic segmentation of manually transcribed speech in order to facilitate information extraction from dialogs. Our approach is based on a combination of mul...
Narjès Boufaden, Guy Lapalme, Yoshua Bengio
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
Long Sentence Partitioning using Structure Analysis for Machine Translation
in machine translation, long sentences are usually assumed to be difficult to treat. The main reason is the syntactic ambiguity which increases explosively as a sentence become lo...
Yoon-Hyung Roh, Young Ae Seo, Ki-Young Lee, Sung-K...
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
A Hierarchical EM Approach to Word Segmentation
We propose a simple two-level hierarchical probability model for unsupervised word segmentation. By treating words as strings composed of morphemes/phonemes which are themselves c...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
Korean Text Generation from Database for Homeshopping Sites
This paper describes a text generation system, XExplainer, which can dynamically produce a description of commodities in Korean from a relational database for homeshopping sites. ...
Ji-Eun Roh, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
Linguistic Techniques to Improve the Performance of Automatic Text Categorization
This paper presents a method for incorporating natural language processing into existing text categorization procedures. Three aspects are considered in the investigation: (i) a m...
Akiko N. Aizawa
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
A Simple Closed-Class/Open-Class Factorization for Improved Language Modeling
We describe a simple improvement to ngram language models where we estimate the distribution over closed-class (function) words separately from the conditional distribution of ope...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans
NLDB
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
Lexical Enrichment of WordNet with Classification Systems Using Specification Marks Method
: This paper presents an automatic method and interface to enrich semantically WordNet with categories from general domain classification systems. The method is performed in two co...
Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar, German Riga...
NLDB
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
Experiments with the Use of Syntactic Analysis in Information Retrieval
: Up to now, the results of applying sophisticated NL techniques to IR have been mostly disappointing. Our research aims at investigating in detail the role of syntactic analysis i...
Markus Mittendorfer, Werner Winiwarter
NLDB
2001
Springer
14 years 8 hour ago
"Where Are the Christmas Decorations?": A Memory Assistant for Storage Locations
At Hewlett-Packard Laboratories we want to know how inexpensive it can be to endow mobile personal assistants with the ability to speak naturally with their users. To this end, we ...
Lewis G. Creary, Michael VanHilst