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LREC
2008
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Adjudicator Agreement and System Rankings for Person Name Search
We have analyzed system rankings for person name search algorithms using a data set for which several versions of ground truth were developed by employing different means of resol...
Mark Arehart, Chris Wolf, Keith J. Miller
LREC
2008
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Do we Still Need Gold Standards for Evaluation?
The availability of a huge mass of textual data in electronic format has increased the need for fast and accurate techniques for textual data processing. Machine learning and stat...
Thierry Poibeau, Cédric Messiant
LREC
2008
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Enriching the Venice Italian Treebank with Dependency and Grammatical Relations
In this paper we propose a rule-based approach to extract dependency and grammatical relations from the Venice Italian Treebank (VIT) (Delmonte et al., 2007) with bracketed tree s...
Sara Tonelli, Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot
LREC
2008
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A Flexible Wizard of Oz Environment for Rapid Prototyping
This paper presents a freely available, and flexible Wizard of Oz environment for rapid prototyping. The system is designed to investigate the required features of a dialog system...
Stefan Scherer, Petra-Maria Strauß
LREC
2008
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Talking and Looking: the SmartWeb Multimodal Interaction Corpus
Nowadays portable devices such as smart phones can be used to capture the face of a user simultaneously with the voice input. Server based or even embedded dialogue system might u...
Florian Schiel, Hannes Mögele
LREC
2008
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From Research to Application in Multilingual Information Access: the Contribution of Evaluation
The importance of evaluation in promoting research and development in the information retrieval and natural language processing domains has long been recognised but is this suffic...
Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Giorgio Maria Di N...
LREC
2008
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A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human Architecture
When dealing with large, distributed systems that use state-of-the-art components, individual components are usually developed in parallel. As development continues, the decouplin...
Arno Hartholt, Thomas Russ, David R. Traum, Eduard...
LREC
2008
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Using Lexical Acquisition to Enrich a Predicate Argument Reusable Database
The work described in this paper aims to enrich the noun classifications of an existing database of lexical resources (de Matos and Ribeiro, 2004) adding missing information such ...
Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J...
LREC
2008
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Statistical Identification of English Loanwords in Korean Using Automatically Generated Training Data
This paper describes an accurate, extensible method for automatically classifying unknown foreign words that requires minimal monolingual resources and no bilingual training data ...
Kirk Baker, Chris Brew