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LREC
2008
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In Contrast - A Complex Discourse Connective
This paper presents a corpus-based study of the discourse connective in contrast. The corpus data are drawn from the British National Corpus (BNC) and are analyzed at the levels o...
Erhard W. Hinrichs, Monica Lau
LREC
2008
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The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics
The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of conference and journal papers in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Its primary purpose is to serve as a referenc...
Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie J. Dorr, Bryan Gi...
LREC
2008
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Design and Recording of Czech Audio-Visual Database with Impaired Conditions for Continuous Speech Recognition
In this paper we discuss the design, acquisition and preprocessing of a Czech audio-visual speech corpus. The corpus is intended for training and testing of existing audio-visual ...
Jana Trojanová, Marek Hrúz, Pavel Ca...
LREC
2008
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More Semantic Links in the SIMPLE-CLIPS Database
Notwithstanding its acknowledged richness, the SIMPLE semantic model does not offer the representational vocabulary for encoding some conceptual links holding between events and t...
Nilda Ruimy, Antonio Toral
LREC
2008
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SCARE: a Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions
In this paper we report on the release of a corpus of English spontaneous instruction giving situated dialogs. The corpus was collected using the Quake environment, a first-person...
Laura Stoia, Darla Magdalena Shockley, Donna K. By...
LREC
2008
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The Italian Particle "ne": Corpus Construction and Analysis
The Italian particle ne exhibits interesting anaphoric properties that have not been yet explored in depth from a corpus and computational linguistic perspective. We provide: (i) ...
Malvina Nissim, Sara Perboni
LREC
2008
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On the Durational Reduction of Repeated Mentions: Recency and Speaker Effects
There are conflicting views in the literature as to the role of listener-adaptive processes in language production in general and articulatory reduction in particular. We present ...
Viktor Trón
LREC
2008
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An Exchange Format for Multimodal Annotations
This paper presents the results of a joint effort of a group of multimodality researchers and tool developers to improve the interoperability between several tools used for the an...
Thomas Schmidt, Susan Duncan, Oliver Ehmer, Jeffre...
LREC
2008
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Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis
The paper deals with the process of designing a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for unit selection speech synthesis. The attention is given mainly to the recordin...
Jindrich Matousek, Daniel Tihelka, Jan Romportl
LREC
2008
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Navigating through Dense Annotation Spaces
Pattern matching, or querying, over annotations is a general purpose paradigm for inspecting, navigating, mining, and transforming annotation repositories--the common representati...
Branimir Boguraev, Mary S. Neff