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NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structure of Natural Language Text
Previous work on discourse parsing has mostly relied on surface syntactic and lexical features; the use of semantics is limited to shallow semantics. The goal of this thesis is to...
Rajen Subba
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Linear Text Segmentation using a Dynamic Programming Algorithm
In this paper we introduce a dynamic programming algorithm to perform linear text segmentation by global minimization of a segmentation cost function which consists of: (a) within...
Athanasios Kehagias, Pavlina Fragkou, Vassilios Pe...
LREC
2008
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On the Use of Web Resources and Natural Language Processing Techniques to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
Language models used in current automatic speech recognition systems are trained on general-purpose corpora and are therefore not relevant to transcribe spoken documents dealing w...
Gwénolé Lecorvé, Guillaume Gr...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...