ACL
2008
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2008
In statistical language modeling, one technique to reduce the problematic effects of data sparsity is to partition the vocabulary into equivalence classes. In this paper we invest...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Live closed-captions for deaf and hard of hearing audiences are currently produced by stenographers, or by voice writers using speech recognition. Both techniques can produce capt...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Rapid and inexpensive techniques for automatic transcription of speech have the potential to dramatically expand the types of content to which information retrieval techniques can...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper presents an empirical study on the robustness and generalization of two alternative role sets for semantic role labeling: PropBank numbered roles and VerbNet thematic r...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
This paper examines whether a learningbased coreference resolver can be improved using semantic class knowledge that is automatically acquired from a version of the Penn Treebank ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Chinese abbreviations are widely used in modern Chinese texts. Compared with English abbreviations (which are mostly acronyms and truncations), the formation of Chinese abbreviati...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
The aim of this paper is to present a simple yet efficient implementation of a tool for simultaneous rule-based morphosyntactic tagging and partial parsing formalism. The parser ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We present the first English syllabification system to improve the accuracy of letter-tophoneme conversion. We propose a novel discriminative approach to automatic syllabification...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Expert search, in which given a query a ranked list of experts instead of documents is returned, has been intensively studied recently due to its importance in facilitating the ne...