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ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
A Term Recognition Approach to Acronym Recognition
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...
Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Improving the Scalability of Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition
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...
Daisuke Okanohara, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruok...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation
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...
Lalita Narupiyakul
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Analysis of Selective Strategies to Build a Dependency-Analyzed Corpus
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...
Kiyonori Ohtake
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
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...
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries
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...
Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka,...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text
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...
Jon Oberlander, Scott Nowson
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Guessing Parts-of-Speech of Unknown Words Using Global Information
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...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto