ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Word lattice decoding has proven useful in spoken language translation; we argue that it provides a compelling model for translation of text genres, as well. We show that prior wo...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper explores the relationship between discourse structure and coverbal gesture. Using the idea of gestural cohesion, we show that coherent topic segments are characterized ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We present a novel framework for the discovery and representation of general semantic relationships that hold between lexical items. We propose that each such relationship can be ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents a semi-supervised training method for linear-chain conditional random fields that makes use of labeled features rather than labeled instances. This is accompli...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Written documents created through dictation differ significantly from a true verbatim transcript of the recorded speech. This poses an obstacle in automatic dictation systems as s...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Roget's Thesaurus has gone through many revisions since it was first published 150 years ago. But how do these revisions affect Roget's usefulness for NLP? We examine th...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of several state-of-the-art English parsers based on different frameworks. Our approach is to measure the impact of each parser when i...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Conventional n-best reranking techniques often suffer from the limited scope of the nbest list, which rules out many potentially good alternatives. We instead propose forest reran...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In this paper, we present a study of a novel summarization problem, i.e., summarizing the impact of a scientific publication. Given a paper and its citation context, we study how ...