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CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Little Known Fact Is ... Answering Other Questions Using Interest-Markers
In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Clustering Narrow-Domain Short Texts by Using the Kullback-Leibler Distance
Clustering short length texts is a difficult task itself, but adding the narrow domain characteristic poses an additional challenge for current clustering methods. We addressed thi...
David Pinto, José-Miguel Benedí, Pao...
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Learning for Semantic Parsing
Semantic parsing is the task of mapping a natural language sentence into a complete, formal meaning representation. Over the past decade, we have developed a number of machine lear...
Raymond J. Mooney
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Expert vs. Non-expert Tutoring: Dialogue Moves, Interaction Patterns and Multi-utterance Turns
Abstract. Studies of one-on-one tutoring have found that expert tutoring is more effective than non-expert tutoring, but the reasons for its effectiveness are relatively unexplor...
Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina C. Kershaw, Stel...
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Competitive Term Selection Method for Information Retrieval
Term selection process is a very necessary component for most natural language processing tasks. Although different unsupervised techniques have been proposed, the best results ar...
Franco Rojas López, Héctor Jim&eacut...
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Text Categorization for Improved Priors of Word Meaning
Distributions of the senses of words are often highly skewed. This fact is exploited by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems which back off to the predominant (most frequent) s...
Rob Koeling, Diana McCarthy, John Carroll
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Latent Variable Models for Causal Knowledge Acquisition
Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Baby-Steps Towards Building a Spanglish Language Model
Abstract. Spanglish is the simultaneous use, or alternating of both, traditional Spanish and English within the same conversational event. This interlanguage is commonly used in U....
Juan Carlos Franco, Thamar Solorio
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Dependency Analysis and CBR to Bridge the Generation Gap in Template-Based NLG
The present paper describes how dependency analysis can be used to automatically extract from a corpus a set of cases - and an accompanying vocabulary - which enable a template-bas...
Virginia Francisco, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Ge...