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ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
Edward Schofield, Zhiping Zheng
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Extraction and Verification of KO-OU Expressions from Large Corpora
In the Japanese language, as a predicate is placed at the end of a sentence, the content of a sentence cannot be inferred until reaching the end. However, when the content is comp...
Atsuko Kida, Eiko Yamamoto, Kyoko Kanzaki, Hitoshi...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
An Adaptive Approach to Collecting Multimodal Input
Multimodal dialogue systems allow users to input information in multiple modalities. These systems can handle simultaneous or sequential composite multimodal input. Different coor...
Anurag Gupta
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation
In statistical machine translation, the generation of a translation hypothesis is computationally expensive. If arbitrary wordreorderings are permitted, the search problem is NP-h...
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Counter-Training in Discovery of Semantic Patterns
This paper presents a method for unsupervised discovery of semantic patterns. Semantic patterns are useful for a variety of text understanding tasks, in particular for locating ev...
Roman Yangarber
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach
In this paper we propose a competition learning approach to coreference resolution. Traditionally, supervised machine learning approaches adopt the singlecandidate model. Neverthe...
Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Orthogonal Negation in Vector Spaces for Modelling Word-Meanings and Document Retrieval
Standard IR systems can process queries such as “web NOT internet”, enabling users who are interested in arachnids to avoid documents about computing. The documents retrieved ...
Dominic Widdows
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Chunk-Based Statistical Translation
This paper describes an alternative translation model based on a text chunk under the framework of statistical machine translation. The translation model suggested here first per...
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiroshi G. Okuno
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches
This paper discusses the challenges and proposes a solution to performing information retrieval on the Web using Chinese natural language speech query. The main contribution of th...
Gang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Yongcheng Wang
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models
Phrase level translation models are effective in improving translation quality by addressing the problem of local re-ordering across language boundaries. Methods that attempt to f...
Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel