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LREC
2008
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Valentino: A Tool for Valence Shifting of Natural Language Texts
In this paper a first implementation of a tool for valence shifting of natural language texts, named Valentino (VALENced Text INOculator), is presented. Valentino can modify exist...
Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock
LREC
2008
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Linguistic Structure and Bilingual Informants Help Induce Machine Translation of Lesser-Resourced Languages
Producing machine translation (MT) for the many minority languages in the world is a serious challenge. Minority languages typically have few resources for building MT systems. Fo...
Christian Monson, Ariadna Font Llitjós, Vam...
LREC
2008
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Using a Probabilistic Model of Context to Detect Word Obfuscation
This paper proposes a distributional model of word use and word meaning which is derived purely from a body of text, and then applies this model to determine whether certain words...
Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of a Cross-lingual Romanian-English Multi-document Summariser
The rapid growth of the Internet means that more information is available than ever before. Multilingual multi-document summarisation offers a way to access this information even ...
Constantin Orasan, Oana Andreea Chiorean
LREC
2008
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Corpus-Based Tools for Computer-Assisted Acquisition of Reading Abilities in Cognate Languages
This paper presents an approach to computer-assisted teaching of reading abilities using corpus data. The approach is supported by a set of tools for automatically selecting and c...
Svitlana Kurella, Serge Sharoff, Anthony Hartley
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Virtual Keyboards for West-African Languages
West African languages are written with alphabets that comprize non classical Latin characters. It is possible to design virtual keyboards which allow the writing of such special ...
Chantal Enguehard, Harouna Naroua
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Linguistics-Based Translation
We report on the evaluation of the Norwegian
Janne Bondi Johannessen, Torbjørn Nordg&ari...
LREC
2008
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Treebank-Based Acquisition of LFG Parsing Resources for French
Motivated by the expense in time and other resources to produce hand-crafted grammars, there has been increased interest in automatically obtained wide-coverage grammars from tree...
Natalie Schluter, Josef van Genabith
LREC
2008
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BioSec Multimodal Biometric Database in Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition
In this paper we briefly describe the BioSec multimodal biometric database and analyze its use in automatic text-dependent speaker
Doroteo Torre Toledano, Daniel Hernández L&...
LREC
2008
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Linguistically Light Lexical Extensions for Ontologies
An increasing number of enterprises are beginning to include semantic web ontologies into their Information Extraction (IE) and Text Analytics (TA) applications. This can be chall...
Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh, Alexander Trouss...