ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
This paper presents a Chinese word segmentation system which can adapt to different domains and standards. We first present a statistical framework where domain-specific words are...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We use machine learners trained on a combination of acoustic confidence and pragmatic plausibility features computed from dialogue context to predict the accuracy of incoming n-be...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We show that a practical translation of MRS descriptions into normal dominance constraints is feasible. We start from a recent theoretical translation and verify its assumptions o...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Supervised learning methods for WSD yield better performance than unsupervised methods. Yet the availability of clean training data for the former is still a severe challenge. In ...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We extend previous work on tree kernels to estimate the similarity between the dependency trees of sentences. Using this kernel within a Support Vector Machine, we detect and clas...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
This paper describes an incremental parsing approach where parameters are estimated using a variant of the perceptron algorithm. A beam-search algorithm is used during both traini...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We present the first application of the head-driven statistical parsing model of Collins (1999) as a simultaneous language model and parser for largevocabulary speech recognition....
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
In this paper, we describe a new methodology to develop mixed-initiative spoken dialog systems, which is based on the extensive use of simulations to accelerate the development pr...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
The purpose of this paper is to automatically create multilingual translation lexicons with regional variations. We propose a transitive translation approach to determine translat...