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LREC
2008
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Towards Semi Automatic Construction of a Lexical Ontology for Persian
Lexical ontologies and semantic lexicons are important resources in natural language processing. They are used in various tasks and applications, especially where semantic process...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard
LREC
2008
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Improving Statistical Machine Translation Efficiency by Triangulation
In current phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation systems, more training data is generally better than less. However, a larger data set eventually introduces a larger model ...
Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Martin Kay
LREC
2008
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Using Similarity Metrics For Terminology Recognition
In this paper we present an approach to terminology recognition whereby a sublanguage term (e.g. an aircraft engine component term extracted from a maintenance log) is matched to ...
Jonathan Butters, Fabio Ciravegna
LREC
2008
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Semi-automatic Building Method for a Multidimensional Affect Dictionary for a New Language
Detecting the tone or emotive content of a text message is increasingly important in many natural language processing applications. Examples of such applications are rating new bo...
Guillaume Pitel, Gregory Grefenstette
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Modules and Tools for Speech Synthesis: the ECESS Framework
The consortium ECESS1 (European Center of Excellence for Speech Synthesis) has set up a framework for evaluation of software modules and tools relevant for speech synthesis. Till ...
Harald Höge, Zdravko Kacic, Bojan Kotnik, Mat...
LREC
2008
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Evaluating Robustness Of A QA System Through A Corpus Of Real-Life Questions
This paper presents the sequential evaluation of the question answering system SQuaLIA. This system is based on the same sequential process as most statistical question answering ...
Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, Philippe Blache
LREC
2008
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A Method for Automatically Constructing Case Frames for English
Case frames are an important knowledge base for a variety of natural language processing (NLP) systems. For the practical use of these systems in the real world, wide-coverage cas...
Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto
LREC
2008
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Evaluating Dialogue Act Tagging with Naive and Expert Annotators
In this paper the dialogue act annotation of naive and expert annotators, both annotating the same data, are compared in order to characterise the insights annotations made by dif...
Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt
LREC
2008
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An Empirical Approach to a Preliminary Successful Identification and Resolution of Temporal Expressions in Spanish News Corpora
Dating of contents is relevant to multiple advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as Information Retrieval or Question Answering. These could be improved by...
Maria Teresa Vicente-Díez, Doaa Samy, Palom...
LREC
2008
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Coding Emotional Events in Audiovisual Corpora
The modelling of realistic emotional behaviour is needed for various applications in multimodal human-machine interaction such as the design of emotional conversational agents (Ma...
Laurence Devillers, Jean-Claude Martin