COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
In this paper we describe an empirical study of human-human multi-tasking dialogues (MTD), where people perform multiple verbal tasks overlapped in time. We examined how conversan...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
The use of similarities has been one of the main approaches to resolve the ambiguities of coordinate structures. In this paper, we present an alternative method for coordination d...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
User logs of search engines have recently been applied successfully to improve various aspects of web search quality. In this paper, we will apply pairs of user queries and snippe...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of a term-by-document matrix for identifying relationships among terms and documents from cooccur...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Existing algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions tend to generate distinguishing descriptions at the semantic level, disregarding the ways in which surface issues c...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
In contrast to LFG and HPSG, there is to date no large scale Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) equiped with a compositional semantics. In this paper, we report on the integration of a ...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Annotated corpora are only useful if their annotations are consistent. Most large-scale annotation efforts take special measures to reconcile inter-annotator disagreement. To date...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
As Chinese text is written without word boundaries, effectively recognizing Chinese words is like recognizing collocations in English, substituting characters for words and words ...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Community-based question answering (cQA) services have accumulated millions of questions and their answers over time. In the process of accumulation, cQA services assume that ques...