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LREC
2008
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What is poorly Said is a Little Funny
We implement several different methods for generating jokes in English. The common theme is to intentionally produce poor utterances by breaking Grice's maxims of conversatio...
Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
LREC
2008
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Comparing Dependency and Constituent Syntax for Frame-semantic Analysis
We address the question of which syntactic representation is best suited for role-semantic analysis of English in the FrameNet paradigm. We compare systems based on dependencies a...
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues
LREC
2008
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Causal Relation Extraction
This paper presents a supervised method for the detection and extraction of Causal Relations from open domain text. First we give a brief outline of the definition of causation an...
Eduardo Blanco, Núria Castell, Dan I. Moldo...
LREC
2008
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A Ground Truth Dataset for Matching Culturally Diverse Romanized Person Names
This paper describes the development of a ground truth dataset of culturally diverse Romanized names in which approximately 70,000 names are matched against a subset of 700. We ra...
Mark Arehart, Keith J. Miller
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Spoken Document Retrieval for Historic Speech Collections
The re-use of spoken word audio collections maintained by audiovisual archives is severely hindered by their generally limited access. The CHoral project, which is part of the CAT...
Willemijn Heeren, Franciska de Jong, Laurens van d...
LREC
2008
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Automatic Evaluation Measures for Statistical Machine Translation System Optimization
Evaluation of machine translation (MT) output is a challenging task. In most cases, there is no single correct translation. In the extreme case, two translations of the same input...
Arne Mauser, Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney
LREC
2008
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RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus
This paper describes the Norwegian broadcast news speech corpus RUNDKAST. The corpus contains recordings of approximately 77 hours of broadcast news shows from the Norwegian broad...
Ingunn Amdal, Ole Morten Strand, Jørn Almbe...
LREC
2008
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Tagging a Hebrew Corpus: the Case of Participles
We report on an effort to build a corpus of Modern Hebrew tagged with parts of speech and morphology. We designed a tagset specific to Hebrew while focusing on four aspects: the t...
Meni Adler, Yael Dahan Netzer, Yoav Goldberg, Davi...
LREC
2008
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Automatic Identification of Temporal Information in Tourism Web Pages
This paper presents our work on the detection of temporal information in web pages. The pages examined within the scope of this study were taken from the tourism sector and the te...
Stéphanie Weiser, Philippe Laublet, Jean-Lu...