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ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Training of a Neural Network Statistical Parser
Discriminative methods have shown significant improvements over traditional generative methods in many machine learning applications, but there has been difficulty in extending th...
James Henderson
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora
Discovering the significant relations embedded in documents would be very useful not only for information retrieval but also for question answering and summarization. Prior method...
Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
Michelle L. Gregory, Yasemin Altun
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE
This paper presents SemFrame, a system that induces frame semantic verb classes from WordNet and LDOCE. Semantic frames are thought to have significant potential in resolving the ...
Rebecca Green, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip Resnik
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Data-Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System
We present a prototype natural-language problem-solving application for a financial services call center, developed as part of the Amiti
Hilda Hardy, Tomek Strzalkowski, Min Wu, Cristian ...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Aligning words using matrix factorisation
Aligning words from sentences which are mutual translations is an important problem in different settings, such as bilingual terminology extraction, Machine Translation, or projec...
Cyril Goutte, Kenji Yamada, Éric Gaussier
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Attention Shifting for Parsing Speech
We present a technique that improves the efficiency of word-lattice parsing as used in speech recognition language modeling. Our technique applies a probabilistic parser iterative...
Keith B. Hall, Mark Johnson
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation
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...
Jianfeng Gao, Andi Wu, Cheng-Ning Huang, Hongqiao ...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems
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...
Malte Gabsdil, Oliver Lemon