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ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting User Reactions to System Error
This paper focuses on the analysis and prediction of so-called aware sites, defined as turns where a user of a spoken dialogue system first becomes aware that the system has made ...
Diane J. Litman, Julia Hirschberg, Marc Swerts
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Syntactic Parsing as a Step for Automatically Augmenting Semantic Lexicons
This paper investigates how, and to what extent the flexibility and robustness of a partial parser can be utilized to automatically extend existing semantic lexicons. Our work is ...
Dimitrios Kokkinakis
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Extending Lambek Grammars: a Logical Account of Minimalist Grammars
We provide a logical definition of Minimalist grammars, that are Stabler's formalization of Chomsky's minimalist program. Our logical definition leads to a neat relation...
Alain Lecomte, Christian Retoré
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating Smoothing Algorithms against Plausibility Judgements
Previous research has shown that the plausibility of an adjective-noun combination is correlated with its corpus co-occurrence frequency. In this paper, we estimate the co-occurre...
Maria Lapata, Frank Keller, Scott McDonald
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
From Chunks to function-Argument Structure: A Similarity-Based Approach
Chunk parsing has focused on the recognition of partial constituent structures at the level of individual chunks. Little attention has been paid to the question of how such partia...
Sandra Kübler, Erhard W. Hinrichs
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Joint and Conditional Estimation of Tagging and Parsing Models
This paper compares two different ways of estimating statistical language models. Many statistical NLP tagging and parsing models are estimated by maximizing the (joint) likelihoo...
Mark Johnson
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Japanese Named Entity Recognition based on a Simple Rule Generator and Decision Tree Learning
Named entity (NE) recognition is a task in which proper nouns and numerical information in a document are detected and classified into categories such as person, organization, loc...
Hideki Isozaki
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
A Common Framework for Syntactic Annotation
It is widely recognized that the proliferation of annotation schemes runs counter to the need to re-use language resources, and that standards for linguistic annotation are becomi...
Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Information Extraction from Voicemail
In this paper we address the problem of extracting key pieces of information from voicemail messages, such as the identity and phone number of the caller. This task differs from t...
Jing Huang, Geoffrey Zweig, Mukund Padmanabhan