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2008
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What would you Ask a conversational Agent? Observations of Human-Agent Dialogues in a Museum Setting
Embodied Conversational Agents have typically been constructed for use in limited domain applications, and tested in very specialized environments. Only in recent years have there...
Susan Robinson, David R. Traum, Midhun Ittycheriah...
LREC
2008
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Automated Subject Induction from Query Keywords through Wikipedia Categories and Subject Headings
This paper addresses a novel approach that integrates two different types of information resources: the World Wide Web and libraries. This approach is based on a hypothesis: advan...
Yoji Kiyota, Noriyuki Tamura, Satoshi Sakai, Hiros...
LREC
2008
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Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers on Language Technology
We describe methods for extracting interesting factual relations from scientific texts in computational linguistics and language technology taken from the ACL Anthology. We use a ...
Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Fed...
LREC
2008
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Entity Translation and Alignment in the ACE-07 ET Task
Entities -- people, organizations, locations and the like -- have long been a central focus of natural language processing technology development, since entities convey essential ...
Zhiyi Song, Stephanie Strassel
LREC
2008
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Sentence Alignment in DPC: Maximizing Precision, Minimizing Human Effort
Awide spectrum of multilingual applications have aligned parallel corpora as their prerequisite. The aim of the project described in this paper is to build a multilingual corpus w...
Julia S. Trushkina, Lieve Macken, Hans Paulussen
LREC
2008
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Benchmarking Textual Annotation Tools for the Semantic Web
This paper investigates the state of the art in automatic textual annotation tools, and examines the extent to which they are ready for use in the real world. We define some bench...
Diana Maynard
LREC
2008
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Relation between Agreement Measures on Human Labeling and Machine Learning Performance: Results from an Art History Domain
We discuss factors that affect human agreement on a semantic labeling task in the art history domain, based on the results of four experiments where we varied the number of labels...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Thomas Lippincott, Tae Yano...
LREC
2008
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Developing Non-European Translation Pairs in a Medium-Vocabulary Medical Speech Translation System
We describe recent work on MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary interlingua-based medical speech translation system, focussing on issues that arise when handling languages of which the gra...
Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Yukie Nakao, Kyo...
LREC
2008
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A Linguistic Resource for Discovering Event Structures and Resolving Event Coreference
In this paper, we present a linguistic resource that annotates event structures in texts. We consider an event structure as a collection of events that interact with each other in...
Cosmin Adrian Bejan, Sanda M. Harabagiu
LREC
2008
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Exploiting the Role of Position Feature in Chinese Relation Extraction
Relation extraction is the task of finding pre-defined semantic relations between two entities or entity mentions from text. Many methods, such as feature-based and kernel-based m...
Peng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu, Yuexian H...