ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Recently, there is a growing interest in working with tree-structured data in different applications and domains such as computational biology and natural language processing. Mor...
TAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
The lack of large-scale, freely available and durable lexical resources, and the consequences for NLP, is widely acknowledged but the attempts to cope with usual bottlenecks preven...
TAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper shows how the best data-driven dependency parsers available today [1] can be improved by learning from unlabeled data. We focus on German and Swedish and show that label...
TAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. The question answering systems are considered the next generation of search engines. This paper focuses on the first step of this process, which is to search for relevant...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
The purpose of this study is to get a working definition that matches people's intuitive notion of gossip and is sufficiently precise for computational implementation. We con...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We develop a method to detect erroneous interpretation results of user utterances by exploiting utterance histories of individual users in spoken dialogue systems that were deploy...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We present analyses aimed at eliciting which specific aspects of discourse provide the strongest indication for text importance. In the context of content selection for single doc...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We use automatically extracted acoustic features to detect speech which is generated under stress, achieving 76.24% accuracy with a binary logistic regression. Our data are task-o...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
When dialogue systems, through the use of incremental processing, are not bounded anymore by strict, nonoverlapping turn-taking, a whole range of additional interactional devices ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...