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2008
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CLIoS: Cross-lingual Induction of Speech Recognition Grammars
We present an approach for the cross-lingual induction of speech recognition grammars that separates the task of translation from the task of grammar generation. The source speech...
Nadine Perera, Michael Pitz, Manfred Pinkal
LREC
2008
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A Multilingual Database of Polarity Items
This paper presents three electronic collections of polarity items: (i) negative polarity items in Romanian, (ii) negative polarity items in German, and (iii) positive polarity it...
Beata Trawinski, Jan-Philipp Soehn
LREC
2008
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Geo-WordNet: Automatic Georeferencing of WordNet
WordNet has been used extensively as a resource for the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) task, both as a sense inventory and a repository of semantic relationships. Recently, we in...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
LREC
2008
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Building a Greek corpus for Textual Entailment
The paper reports on completed work aimed at the creation of a resource, namely, the Greek Textual Entailment Corpus (GTEC) that is appropriate for guiding training and evaluation...
Evi Marzelou, Maria Zourari, Voula Giouli, Stelios...
LREC
2008
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New Telephone Speech Databases for French: a Children Database and an optimized Adult Corpus
This paper presents the results of the NEOLOGOS project: a children database and an optimized adult database for the French language. A new approach was adopted for the collection...
Djamel Mostefa, Arnaud Vallee
LREC
2008
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Semantic Vectors: a Scalable Open Source Package and Online Technology Management Application
This paper describes the open source SemanticVectors package that efficiently creates semantic vectors for words and documents from a corpus of free text articles. We believe that...
Dominic Widdows, Kathleen Ferraro
LREC
2008
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Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation
The ultimate goal when building dialogue systems is to satisfy the needs of real users, but quality assurance for dialogue strategies is a non-trivial problem. The applied evaluat...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
LREC
2008
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Acquiring Pronunciation Data for a Placenames Lexicon in a Less-Resourced Language
A new procedure is described for generating pronunciations for a dictionary of place-names in a less-resourced language (Welsh, spoken in Wales, UK). The method is suitable for us...
Briony Williams, Rhys James Jones
LREC
2008
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Task-Based Evaluation of Meeting Browsers: from Task Elicitation to User Behavior Analysis
This paper presents recent results of the application of the task-based Browser Evaluation Test (BET) to meeting browsers, that is, interfaces to multimodal databases of meeting r...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Mike Flynn, Pierre Wellner, ...
LREC
2008
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Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition for Part of Speech Tagging
It is known that POS tagging is not very accurate for unknown words (words which the POS tagger has not seen in the training corpora). Thus, a first step to improve the tagging ac...
Dan Tufis, Elena Irimia, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceaus...