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LREC
2008
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Developing Verb Frames for Hindi
This paper introduces an ongoing work on developing verb frames for Hindi. Verb frames capture syntactic commonalities of semantically related verbs. The main objective of this wo...
Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Lakshmi Bai, Dipti Mis...
LREC
2008
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Borrowing Language Resources for Development of Automatic Speech Recognition for Low- and Middle-Density Languages
In this paper we describe an approach that both creates crosslingual acoustic monophone model sets for speech recognition tasks and objectively predicts their performance without ...
Lynette Melnar, Chen Liu
LREC
2008
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Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages
This paper describes BABYLON, a system that attempts to overcome the shortage of parallel texts in low-density languages by supplementing existing parallel texts with texts gather...
Michael Mohler, Rada Mihalcea
LREC
2008
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Named Entity Relation Mining using Wikipedia
Discovering relations among Named Entities (NEs) from large corpora is both a challenging, as well as useful task in the domain of Natural Language Processing, with applications i...
Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu
LREC
2008
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Similar Term Discovery using Web Search
We present an approach to the discovery of semantically similar terms that utilizes a web search engine as both a source for generating related terms and a tool for estimating the...
Peter G. Anick, Vijay Murthi, Shaji Sebastian
LREC
2008
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A Hybrid Approach to Extracting and Classifying Verb+Noun Constructions
We present the main findings and preliminary results of an ongoing project aimed at developing a system for collocation extraction based on contextual morpho-syntactic properties....
Amalia Todirascu, Dan Tufis, Ulrich Heid, Christop...
LREC
2008
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The Linguistic Data Consortium Member Survey: Purpose, Execution and Results
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) seeks to provide its members with quality linguistic resources and services. In order to pursue these ideals and to remain current, LDC monito...
Marian Reed, Denise DiPersio, Christopher Cieri
LREC
2008
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The QALL-ME Benchmark: a Multilingual Resource of Annotated Spoken Requests for Question Answering
This paper presents the QALL-ME benchmark, a multilingual resource of annotated spoken requests in the tourism domain, freely available for research purposes. The languages curren...
Elena Cabrio, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, M...