ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We examine the utility of speech and lexical features for predicting student emotions in computerhuman spoken tutoring dialogues. We first annotate student turns for negative, neu...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Most foreign names are transliterated into Chinese, Japanese or Korean with approximate phonetic equivalents. The transliteration is usually achieved through intermediate phonemic...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Temporal relation resolution involves extraction of temporal information explicitly or implicitly embedded in a language. This information is often inferred from a variety of inte...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We present a linguistically-motivated algorithm for reconstructing nonlocal dependency in broad-coverage context-free parse trees derived from treebanks. We use an algorithm based...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We present a generative model for the unsupervised learning of dependency structures. We also describe the multiplicative combination of this dependency model with a model of line...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
This paper discusses the use of statistical word alignment over multiple parallel texts for the identification of string spans that cannot be constituents in one of the languages....
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We use a reliably annotated corpus to compare metrics of coherence based on Centering Theory with respect to their potential usefulness for text structuring in natural language ge...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
This paper describes a noisy channel model of speech repairs, which can identify and correct repairs in speech transcripts. A syntactic parser is used as the source model, and a n...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We describe a method for enriching the output of a parser with information available in a corpus. The method is based on graph rewriting using memorybased learning, applied to dep...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
This paper applies machine learning techniques to acquiring aspects of the meaning of discourse markers. Three subtasks of acquiring the meaning of a discourse marker are consider...