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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Hunting for the Black Swan: Risk Mining from Text
In the business world, analyzing and dealing with risk permeates all decisions and actions. However, to date, risk identification, the first step in the risk management cycle, has...
Jochen L. Leidner, Frank Schilder
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Personalising Speech-To-Speech Translation in the EMIME Project
In the EMIME project we have studied unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation. We have employed an HMM statistical framework for both speech recognition and synthesis which p...
Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N....
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The S-Space Package: An Open Source Package for Word Space Models
We present the S-Space Package, an open source framework for developing and evaluating word space algorithms. The package implements well-known word space algorithms, such as LSA,...
David Jurgens, Keith Stevens
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Beetle II: A System for Tutoring and Computational Linguistics Experimentation
We present BEETLE II, a tutorial dialogue system designed to accept unrestricted language input and support experimentation with different tutorial planning and dialogue strategie...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
WebLicht: Web-Based LRT Services for German
This software demonstration presents WebLicht (short for: Web-Based Linguistic Chaining Tool), a webbased service environment for the integration and use of language resources and...
Erhard W. Hinrichs, Marie Hinrichs, Thomas Zastrow
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models
We present cdec, an open source framework for decoding, aligning with, and training a number of statistical machine translation models, including word-based models, phrase-based m...
Chris Dyer, Adam Lopez, Juri Ganitkevitch, Jonatha...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Mood Patterns and Affective Lexicon Access in Weblogs
The emergence of social media brings chances, but also challenges, to linguistic analysis. In this paper we investigate a novel problem of discovering patterns based on emotion an...
Thin Nguyen
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin Verbs
We present a system that automatically induces Selectional Preferences (SPs) for Latin verbs from two treebanks by using Latin WordNet. Our method overcomes some of the problems c...
Barbara McGillivray
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Relational POMDPs for Adaptive Dialogue Management
Open-ended spoken interactions are typically characterised by both structural complexity and high levels of uncertainty, making dialogue management in such settings a particularly...
Pierre Lison