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ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Unified Syntactic Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech
This paper describes a syntactic representation for modeling speech repairs. This representation makes use of a right corner transform of syntax trees to produce a tree representa...
Tim Miller, William Schuler
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Correlation between ROUGE and Human Evaluation of Extractive Meeting Summaries
Automatic summarization evaluation is critical to the development of summarization systems. While ROUGE has been shown to correlate well with human evaluation for content match in...
Feifan Liu, Yang Liu
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Novel Semantic Features for Verb Sense Disambiguation
We propose a novel method for extracting semantic information about a verb's arguments and apply it to Verb Sense Disambiguation (VSD). We contrast this method with two popul...
Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Linguistically Annotated Reordering Model for BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we propose a linguistically annotated reordering model for BTG-based statistical machine translation. The model incorporates linguistic knowledge to predict orders ...
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling
Research on coreference resolution and summarization has modeled the way entities are realized as concrete phrases in discourse. In particular there exist models of the noun phras...
Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
High Frequency Word Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue
Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both pr...
Ani Nenkova, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschb...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Hierarchical Approach to Encoding Medical Concepts for Clinical Notes
This paper proposes a hierarchical text categorization (TC) approach to encoding free-text clinical notes with ICD-9-CM codes. Preliminary experimental result on the 2007 Computat...
Yitao Zhang
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
The Role of Positive Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
The focus of this study is positive feedback in one-on-one tutoring, its computational modeling, and its application to the design of more effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ...
Davide Fossati
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Source and Target Language Information for Name Tagging of Machine Translation Output
A Named Entity Recognizer (NER) generally has worse performance on machine translated text, because of the poor syntax of the MT output and other errors in the translation. As som...
Shasha Liao