ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
We present and experimentally evaluate a new model of pronunciation by analogy: the paradigmatic cascades model. Given a pronunciation lexicon, this algorithm first extracts the m...
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
Decoding algorithm is a crucial part in statistical machine translation. We describe a stack decoding algorithm in this paper. We present the hypothesis scoring method and the heu...
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
This paper presents PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation), a general framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents. The framework decouples task requirements from a...
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
In the past the evaluation of machine translation systems has focused on single system evaluations because there were only few systems available. But now there are several commerc...
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
We present preliminary results concerning robust techniques for resolving bridging definite descriptions. We report our analysis of a collection of 20 Wall Street Journal articles...
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
Being able to predict the placement of contrastive accent is essential for the assignment of correct accentuation patterns in spoken language generation. I discuss two approaches ...
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
ACL
1997
14 years 4 days ago
1997
We present an algorithm for simultaneously constructing both the syntax and semantics of a sentence using a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). This approach captures natur...