ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
We present a term recognition approach to extract acronyms and their definitions from a large text collection. Parenthetical expressions appearing in a text collection are identif...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
This paper presents techniques to apply semi-CRFs to Named Entity Recognition tasks with a tractable computational cost. Our framework can handle an NER task that has long named e...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
This paper discusses sampling strategies for building a dependency-analyzed corpus and analyzes them with different kinds of corpora. We used the Kyoto Text Corpus, a dependency-a...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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...