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LREC
2010
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Non-verbal Signals for Turn-taking and Feedback
This paper concerns non-verbal communication, and describes especially the use of eye-gaze to signal turn-taking and feedback in conversational settings. Eye-gaze supports smooth ...
Kristiina Jokinen
LREC
2010
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Towards Improving English-Latvian Translation: A System Comparison and a New Rescoring Feature
This paper presents a comparative study of two alternative approaches to statistical machine translation (SMT) and their application to a task of English-to-Latvian translation. F...
Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa, Ingun...
LREC
2010
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NLP Resources for the Analysis of Patient/Therapist Interviews
We present a set of tools and resources for the analysis of interviews during psychotherapy sessions. One of the main components of the work is a dictionary-based text interpretat...
Horacio Saggion, Elena Stein-Sparvieri, David Mald...
LREC
2010
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mwetoolkit: a Framework for Multiword Expression Identification
This paper presents the Multiword Expression Toolkit (mwetoolkit), an environment for type and language-independent MWE identification from corpora. The mwetoolkit provides a targ...
Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Christian Boi...
LREC
2010
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How Specialized are Specialized Corpora? Behavioral Evaluation of Corpus Representativeness for Maltese
In this paper we bring to light a novel intersection between corpus linguistics and behavioral data that can be employed as an evaluation metric for resources for low-density lang...
Jerid Francom, Amy LaCross, Adam Ussishkin
LREC
2010
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Wizard of Oz Experiments for a Companion Dialogue System: Eliciting Companionable Conversation
Within the EU-funded COMPANIONS project, we are working to evaluate new collaborative conversational models of dialogue. Such an evaluation requires us to benchmark approaches to ...
Nick Webb, David Benyon, Jay Bradley, Preben Hanse...
LREC
2010
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The Brandeis Annotation Tool
The Brandeis Annotation Tool is a web-based text annotation tool that is centered around the notions of layered annotation and task decomposition. It allows annotations to refer t...
Marc Verhagen
LREC
2010
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Integration of Linguistic Markup into Semantic Models of Folk Narratives: The Fairy Tale Use Case
Propp's influential structural analysis of fairy tales created a powerful schema for representing storylines in terms of character functions, which is directly exploitable fo...
Piroska Lendvai, Thierry Declerck, Sándor D...
LREC
2010
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Evaluating Utility of Data Sources in a Large Parallel Czech-English Corpus CzEng 0.9
CzEng 0.9 is the third release of a large parallel corpus of Czech and English. For the current release, CzEng was extended by significant amount of texts from various types of so...
Ondrej Bojar, Adam Liska, Zdenek Zabokrtský
LREC
2010
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Comparison of Spectral Properties of Read, Prepared and Casual Speech in French
In this paper, we investigate the acoustic properties of phonemes in three speaking styles: read speech, prepared speech and spontaneous speech. Our aim is to better understand wh...
Jean-Luc Rouas, Mayumi Beppu, Martine Adda-Decker