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NAACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents
This paper describes an automatic method for acquiring hyponymy relations from HTML documents on the WWW. Hyponymy relations can play a crucial role in various natural language pr...
Keiji Shinzato, Kentaro Torisawa
NAACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Optimizing Automated Call Routing by Integrating Spoken Dialog Models with Queuing Models
Organizations are increasingly turning to spoken dialog systems for automated call routing to reduce call center costs. To maintain quality service even in cases of failure, these...
Tim Paek, Eric Horvitz
NAACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, Mari Ostendorf
NAACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
In statistical machine translation, the currently best performing systems are based in some way on phrases or word groups. We describe the baseline phrase-based translation system...
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
NAACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding for statistical machine translation. This statistical approach aims to minimize expected loss of translation errors under loss functio...
Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne