ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
2003
In this paper, we present a method for the semantic tagging of word chunks extracted from a written transcription of conversations. This work is part of an ongoing project for an ...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
2003
We describe an algorithm for recovering non-local dependencies in syntactic dependency structures. The patternmatching approach proposed by Johnson (2002) for a similar task for p...
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
2001
Many machine learning methods have recently been applied to natural language processing tasks. Among them, the Winnow algorithm has been argued to be particularly suitable for NLP...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
2003
Discourse chunking is a simple way to segment dialogues according to how dialogue participants raise topics and negotiate them. This paper explains a method for arranging dialogue...
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
2001
In this paper, a new language model, the Multi-Class Composite N-gram, is proposed to avoid a data sparseness problem for spoken language in that it is difficult to collect traini...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
2003
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
2001
We present a syntax-based statistical translation model. Our model transforms a source-language parse tree into a target-language string by applying stochastic operations at each ...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
2003
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
2001
We describe a set of supervised machine learning experiments centering on the construction of statistical models of WH-questions. These models, which are built from shallow lingui...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
2003
In the Japanese language, as a predicate is placed at the end of a sentence, the content of a sentence cannot be inferred until reaching the end. However, when the content is comp...