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ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
An Empirically Motivated Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions
We describe an algorithm for generating multimodal referring expressions, based on empirical data. The main novelties are (1) a decision to point based on both the efficiency of p...
Ielka van der Sluis
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Using Machine Learning to Maintain Rule-based Named-Entity Recognition and Classification Systems
This paper presents a method that assists in maintaining a rule-based named-entity recognition and classification system. The underlying idea is to use a separate system, construc...
Georgios Petasis, Frantz Vichot, Francis Wolinski,...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Using a Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate an NLG System
The STOP system, which generates personalised smoking-cessation letters, was evaluated by a randomised controlled clinical trial. We believe this is the largest and perhaps most r...
Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, A. Scott Lennox, Lies...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Tractability and Structural Closures in Attribute Logic Type Signatures
This paper considers three assumptions conventionally made about signatures in typed feature logic that are in potential disagreement with current practice among grammar developer...
Gerald Penn
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Evaluating a Trainable Sentence Planner for a Spoken Dialogue System
Techniques for automatically training modules of a natural language generator have recently been proposed, but a fundamental concern is whether the quality of utterances produced ...
Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Automated Parser Construction from a Treebank by means of TBL and ILP
Considering the difficulties inherent in the manual construction of natural language parsers, we have designed and implemented our system GRIND which is capable of learning a sequ...
Miloslav Nepil
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Towards a Unified Approach to Memory- and Statistical-Based Machine Translation
We present a set of algorithms that enable us to translate natural language sentences by exploiting both a translation memory and a statistical-based translation model. Our result...
Daniel Marcu
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners
In this paper we discuss our approach toward establishing a model of the acquisition of English grammatical structures by users of our English language tutoring system, which has ...
Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
A Generic Approach to Parallel Chart Parsing with an Application to LinGO
Multi-processor systems are becoming more commonplace and affordable. Based on analyses of actual parsings, we argue that to exploit the capabilities of such machines, unification...
Marcel P. Van Lohuizen