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LREC
2008
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Combining Multiple Models for Speech Information Retrieval
In this article we present a method for combining different information retrieval models in order to increase the retrieval performance in a Speech Information Retrieval task. The...
Muath Alzghool, Diana Inkpen
LREC
2008
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Collection and Preprocessing of Czech Sign Language Corpus for Sign Language Recognition
This paper discusses the design, recording and preprocessing of a Czech sign language corpus. The corpus is intended for training and testing of sign language recognition (SLR) sy...
Pavel Campr, Marek Hrúz, Jana Trojanov&aacu...
LREC
2008
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Generalising Lexical Translation Strategies for MT Using Comparable Corpora
We report on an on-going research project aimed at increasing the range of translation equivalents which can be automatically discovered by MT systems. The methodology is based on...
Bogdan Babych, Serge Sharoff, Anthony Hartley
LREC
2008
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Linguistic Resources and Evaluation Techniques for Evaluation of Cross-Document Automatic Content Extraction
The NIST Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) Evaluation expands its focus in 2008 to encompass the challenge of cross-document and cross-language global integration and reconciliat...
Stephanie Strassel, Mark A. Przybocki, Kay Peterso...
LREC
2008
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Tapping Huge Temporally Indexed Textual Resources with WCTAnalyze
WCTAnalyze is a tool for storing, accessing and visually analyzing huge collections of temporally indexed data. It is motivated by applications in media analysis, business intelli...
Sebastian Gottwald, Matthias Richter, Gerhard Heye...
LREC
2008
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Boosting Precision and Recall of Hyponymy Relation Acquisition from Hierarchical Layouts in Wikipedia
This paper proposes an extension of Sumida and Torisawa's method of acquiring hyponymy relations from hierachical layouts in Wikipedia (Sumida and Torisawa, 2008). We extract...
Asuka Sumida, Naoki Yoshinaga, Kentaro Torisawa
LREC
2008
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A Comparative Study on Language Identification Methods
In this paper we present two experiments conducted for comparison of different language identification algorithms. Short words-, frequent words- and n-gram-based approaches are co...
Lena Grothe, Ernesto William De Luca, Andreas N&uu...
LREC
2008
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Semantic Annotation Layer in Russian National Corpus: Lexical Classes of Nouns and Adjectives
The paper describes the project held within Russian National Corpus (http://www.ruscorpora.ru). Beside such obligatory constituents of a linguistic corpus as POS (parts of speech)...
Olga N. Lashevskaja, Olga Yu. Shemanaeva
LREC
2008
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Unsupervised Learning-based Anomalous Arabic Text Detection
The growing dependence of modern society on the Web as a vital source of information and communication has become inevitable. However, the Web has become an ideal channel for vari...
Nasser Abouzakhar, Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie
LREC
2008
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Towards Spanish Verbs' Selectional Preferences Automatic Acquisition: Semantic Annotation of the SenSem Corpus
We present the results of an agreement task carried out in the framework of the KNOW Project and consisting in manually annotating an agreement sample totaling 50 sentences extrac...
Jordi Carrera, Irene Castellón, Salvador Cl...