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ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models
We present two language models based upon an "immediate-head" parser -our name for a parser that conditions all events below a constituent c upon the head of c. While al...
Eugene Charniak
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Non-Verbal Cues for Discourse Structure
This paper addresses the issue of designing embodied conversational agents that exhibit appropriate posture shifts during dialogues with human users. Previous research has noted t...
Justine Cassell, Yukiko I. Nakano, Timothy W. Bick...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection
Link detection has been regarded as a core technology for the Topic Detection and Tracking tasks of new event detection. In this paper we formulate story link detection and new ev...
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Thorsten Brants
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
From RAGS to RICHES: Exploiting the Potential of a Flexible Generation Architecture
The RAGS proposals for generic specification of NLG systems includes a detailed account of data representation, but only an outline view of processing aspects. In this paper we in...
Lynne J. Cahill, John Carroll, Roger Evans, Daniel...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Towards Automatic Classification of Discourse Elements in Essays
Educators are interested in essay evaluation systems that include feedback about writing features that can facilitate the essay revision process. For instance, if the thesis state...
Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Slava Andreyev, Marti...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies
We present a probabilistic parsing model for German trained on the Negra treebank. We observe that existing lexicalized parsing models using head-head dependencies, while successf...
Amit Dubey, Frank Keller
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods
We present a novel approach for finding discontinuities that outperforms previously published results on this task. Rather than using a deeper grammar formalism, our system combi...
Péter Dienes, Amit Dubey
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Detecting Problematic Turns in Human-Machine Interactions: Rule-induction Versus Memory-based Learning Approaches
We address the issue of on-line detection of communication problems in spoken dialogue systems. The usefulness is investigated of the sequence of system question types and the wor...
Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency
We present a language-independent and unsupervised algorithm for the segmentation of words into morphs. The algorithm is based on a new generative probabilistic model, which makes...
Mathias Creutz