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ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Dependency Parsing of Japanese Spoken Monologue Based on Clause Boundaries
Spoken monologues feature greater sentence length and structural complexity than do spoken dialogues. To achieve high parsing performance for spoken monologues, it could prove eff...
Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara, Hideki Kashioka,...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text
We report initial results on the relatively novel task of automatic classification of author personality. Using a corpus of personal weblogs, or `blogs', we investigate the a...
Jon Oberlander, Scott Nowson
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Guessing Parts-of-Speech of Unknown Words Using Global Information
In this paper, we present a method for guessing POS tags of unknown words using local and global information. Although many existing methods use only local information (i.e. limit...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Clustered Global Phrase Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we present a novel global reordering model that can be incorporated into standard phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike previous local reordering mod...
Masaaki Nagata, Kuniko Saito, Kazuhide Yamamoto, K...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments
This paper describes an algorithm for propagating verb arguments along lexical chains consisting of WordNet relations. The algorithm creates verb argument structures using VerbNet...
Adrian Novischi, Dan I. Moldovan
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Time Period Identification of Events in Text
This study aims at identifying when an event written in text occurs. In particular, we classify a sentence for an event into four time-slots; morning, daytime, evening, and night....
Taichi Noro, Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Leveraging Reusability: Cost-Effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-Scale Ontology Translation
Thesauri and ontologies provide important value in facilitating access to digital archives by representing underlying principles of organization. Translation of such resources int...
G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy J. Lin, Jan...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora
We present a novel method for extracting parallel sub-sentential fragments from comparable, non-parallel bilingual corpora. By analyzing potentially similar sentence pairs using a...
Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Phoneme-to-Text Transcription System with an Infinite Vocabulary
The noisy channel model approach is successfully applied to various natural language processing tasks. Currently the main research focus of this approach is adaptation methods, ho...
Shinsuke Mori, Daisuke Takuma, Gakuto Kurata