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ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Simultaneous English-Japanese Spoken Language Translation Based on Incremental Dependency Parsing and Transfer
This paper proposes a method for incrementally translating English spoken language into Japanese. To realize simultaneous translation between languages with different word order, ...
Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, Yasuyoshi Inagaki
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Clavius: Bi-Directional Parsing for Generic Multimodal Interaction
We introduce a new multi-threaded parsing algorithm on unification grammars designed specifically for multimodal interaction and noisy environments. By lifting some traditional co...
Frank Rudzicz
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues
Speech recognition problems are a reality in current spoken dialogue systems. In order to better understand these phenomena, we study dependencies between speech recognition probl...
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
URES : an Unsupervised Web Relation Extraction System
Most information extraction systems either use hand written extraction patterns or use a machine learning algorithm that is trained on a manually annotated corpus. Both of these a...
Binyamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse
We present a method for unsupervised topic modelling which adapts methods used in document classification (Blei et al., 2003; Griffiths and Steyvers, 2004) to unsegmented multi-pa...
Matthew Purver, Konrad P. Körding, Thomas L. ...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion
This paper demonstrates a conceptually simple but effective method of increasing the accuracy of QA systems on factoid-style questions. We define the notion of an inverted questio...
John M. Prager, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennife...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Utilizing Co-Occurrence of Answers in Question Answering
In this paper, we discuss how to utilize the co-occurrence of answers in building an automatic question answering system that answers a series of questions on a specific topic in ...
Min Wu, Tomek Strzalkowski
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
LexNet: A Graphical Environment for Graph-Based NLP
This interactive presentation describes LexNet, a graphical environment for graph-based NLP developed at the University of Michigan. LexNet includes LexRank (for text summarizatio...
Dragomir R. Radev, Günes Erkan, Anthony Fader...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation
We present an automatic approach to tree annotation in which basic nonterminal symbols are alternately split and merged to maximize the likelihood of a training treebank. Starting...
Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux, Dan Kle...