ACL
2006
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2006
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Spoken monologues feature greater sentence length and structural complexity than do spoken dialogues. To achieve high parsing performance for spoken monologues, it could prove eff...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
We report initial results on the relatively novel task of automatic classification of author personality. Using a corpus of personal weblogs, or `blogs', we investigate the a...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
In this paper, we present a method for guessing POS tags of unknown words using local and global information. Although many existing methods use only local information (i.e. limit...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
In this paper, we present a novel global reordering model that can be incorporated into standard phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike previous local reordering mod...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
This paper describes an algorithm for propagating verb arguments along lexical chains consisting of WordNet relations. The algorithm creates verb argument structures using VerbNet...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
This study aims at identifying when an event written in text occurs. In particular, we classify a sentence for an event into four time-slots; morning, daytime, evening, and night....
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Thesauri and ontologies provide important value in facilitating access to digital archives by representing underlying principles of organization. Translation of such resources int...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
We present a novel method for extracting parallel sub-sentential fragments from comparable, non-parallel bilingual corpora. By analyzing potentially similar sentence pairs using a...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
The noisy channel model approach is successfully applied to various natural language processing tasks. Currently the main research focus of this approach is adaptation methods, ho...