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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Learning the Structure of Task-Driven Human-Human Dialogs
Abstract--With the availability of large corpora of spoken dialog, it is now possible to use data-driven techniques to build and use models of task-oriented dialogs. In this paper,...
Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda ...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Word Alignment with Conditional Random Fields
In this paper we present a novel approach for inducing word alignments from sentence aligned data. We use a Conditional Random Field (CRF), a discriminative model, which is estima...
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Outilex, a Linguistic Platform for Text Processing
We present Outilex, a generalist linguistic platform for text processing. The platform includes several modules implementing the main operations for text processing and is designe...
Olivier Blanc, Matthieu Constant
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces
The trend in information retrieval systems is from document to sub-document retrieval, such as sentences in a summarization system and words or phrases in question-answering syste...
Catherine Blake
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT
This paper presents an extensive evaluation of five different alignments and investigates their impact on the corresponding MT system output. We introduce new measures for intrins...
Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization
Short Messaging Service (SMS) texts behave quite differently from normal written texts and have some very special phenomena. To translate SMS texts, traditional approaches model s...
AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao, Jian Su
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Acceptability Prediction by Means of Grammaticality Quantification
We propose in this paper a method for quantifying sentence grammaticality. The approach based on Property Grammars, a constraint-based syntactic formalism, makes it possible to ev...
Philippe Blache, Barbara Hemforth, Stéphane...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Flexible Approach to Natural Language Generation for Disabled Children
Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a way to automatically realize a correct expression in response to a communicative goal. This technology is mainly explored in the fields of m...
Pradipta Biswas
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
The Natural Language Toolkit is a suite of program modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and teaching in computational linguistics and natural language processing. ...
Steven Bird