We present TextPro, a suite of modular Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for analysis of Italian and English texts. The suite has been designed so as to integrate and reuse ...
Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi, Roberto Zanoli
The goal of this work is to introduce an architecture to automatically detect the amount of stress in the speech signal close to real time. For this an experimental setup to recor...
This paper describes a study of the levels at which different rhetorical relations occur in rhetorical structure trees. In a previous empirical study (Williams and Reiter, 2003) o...
Semantic annotation of text requires the dynamic merging of linguistically structured information and a "world model", usually represented as a domain-specific ontology....
In this paper we describe some studies of Portuguese-English word alignment, focusing on (i) measuring the importance of the coupling between dictionaries and corpus; (ii) assessi...
We describe a methodology for evaluating the statistical performance of information distillation systems and apply it to a simple illustrative example. (An information distiller p...
This paper is motivated by the demand for more linguistic resources for the study of languages and the improvement of those already existing. The first step in our work is the sel...
The output of a speech recognition system is not always ideal for subsequent downstream processing, in part because speakers themselves often make mistakes. A system would accompl...
Active learning (AL) is getting more and more popular as a methodology to considerably reduce the annotation effort when building training material for statistical learning method...
Evaluation campaigns have become an established way to evaluate automatic systems which tackle the same task. This paper presents the first edition of the Anaphora Resolution Exer...
Constantin Orasan, Dan Cristea, Ruslan Mitkov, Ant...