ACL
2001
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2001
This paper focuses on the analysis and prediction of so-called aware sites, defined as turns where a user of a spoken dialogue system first becomes aware that the system has made ...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
This paper investigates how, and to what extent the flexibility and robustness of a partial parser can be utilized to automatically extend existing semantic lexicons. Our work is ...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
We provide a logical definition of Minimalist grammars, that are Stabler's formalization of Chomsky's minimalist program. Our logical definition leads to a neat relation...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
Previous research has shown that the plausibility of an adjective-noun combination is correlated with its corpus co-occurrence frequency. In this paper, we estimate the co-occurre...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
Chunk parsing has focused on the recognition of partial constituent structures at the level of individual chunks. Little attention has been paid to the question of how such partia...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
This paper compares two different ways of estimating statistical language models. Many statistical NLP tagging and parsing models are estimated by maximizing the (joint) likelihoo...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
Named entity (NE) recognition is a task in which proper nouns and numerical information in a document are detected and classified into categories such as person, organization, loc...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
It is widely recognized that the proliferation of annotation schemes runs counter to the need to re-use language resources, and that standards for linguistic annotation are becomi...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
In this paper we address the problem of extracting key pieces of information from voicemail messages, such as the identity and phone number of the caller. This task differs from t...