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ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Influence of Argument Conciseness on Argument Effectiveness
We have developed a system that generates evaluative arguments that are tailored to the user, properly arranged and concise. We have also developed an evaluation framework in whic...
Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna D. Moore
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction
The noisy channel model has been applied to a wide range of problems, including spelling correction. These models consist of two components: a source model and a channel model. Ve...
Eric Brill, Robert C. Moore
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
An Improved Parser for Data-Oriented Lexical-Functional Analysis
We present an LFG-DOP parser which uses fragments from LFG-annotated sentences to parse new sentences. Experiments with the Verbmobil and Homecentre corpora show that (1) Viterbi ...
Rens Bod
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Query-Relevant Summarization using FAQs
This paper introduces a statistical model for query-relevant summarization: succinctly characterizing the relevance of a document to a query. Learning parameter values for the pro...
Adam L. Berger, Vibhu O. Mittal
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Headline Generation Based on Statistical Translation
Extractive summarization techniques cannot generate document summaries shorter than a single sentence, something that is often required. An ideal summarization system would unders...
Michele Banko, Vibhu O. Mittal, Michael J. Witbroc...