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COLING
2002
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Processing Japanese Self-correction in Speech Dialog Systems
Speech dialog systems need to deal with various kinds of ill-formed speech inputs that appear in natural human-human dialog. Self-correction (or speech-repair) is a particularly p...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Searching the Web by Voice
Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search eng...
Alexander Franz, Brian Milch
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Fine Grained Classification of Named Entities
While Named Entity extraction is useful in many natural language applications, the coarse categories that most NE extractors work with prove insufficient for complex applications ...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Using Collocations for Topic Segmentation and Link Detection
We present in this paper a method for achieving in an integrated way two tasks of topic analysis: segmentation and link detection. This method combines word repetition and the lex...
Olivier Ferret
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Study of Practical Effectiveness for Machine Translation Using Recursive Chain-link-type Learning
A number of machine translation systems based on the learning algorithms are presented. These methods acquire translation rules from pairs of similar sentences in a bilingual text...
Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi, ...
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Text Authoring, Knowledge Acquisition and Description Logics
We present a principled approach to the problem of connecting a controlled document authoring system with a knowledge base. We start by describingclosed-world authoring situations...
Marc Dymetman
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Inferring Knowledge from a Large Semantic Network
In this paper, we present a rich semantic network based on a differential analysis. We then detail implemented measures that take into account common and differential features bet...
Dominique Dutoit, Thierry Poibeau
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
A Complete Integrated NLG System Using AI and NLU Tools
A standard architecture for an NLG system has been defined in (Reiter and Dale, 2000). Their work describes the modularization of an NLG system and the tasks of each module. Howev...
Laurence Danlos, Adil El Ghali