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ANLP
2000
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13 years 6 months ago
Using Semantic Preferences to Identify Verbal Participation in Role Switching Alternations
We propose a method for identifying diathesis alternations where a particular argument type is seen in slots which have different grammatical roles in the alternating forms. The m...
Diana McCarthy
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Improving the Use of Pseudo-Words for Evaluating Selectional Preferences
This paper improves the use of pseudowords as an evaluation framework for selectional preferences. While pseudowords originally evaluated word sense disambiguation, they are now c...
Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Jurafsky
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification
Convolution tree kernel has shown promising results in semantic role classification. However, it only carries out hard matching, which may lead to over-fitting and less accurate s...
Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, AiTi Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Gu...
NLDB
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Acquiring Selectional Preferences from Untagged Text for Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation
Abstract. Extracting information automatically from texts for database representation requires previously well-grouped phrases so that entities can be separated adequately. This pr...
Hiram Calvo, Alexander F. Gelbukh