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COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Bayes Risk-based Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval System with Speech Interface
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Robust and Efficient Chinese Word Dependency Analysis with Linear Kernel Support Vector Machines
Data-driven learning based on shift reduce parsing algorithms has emerged dependency parsing and shown excellent performance to many Treebanks. In this paper, we investigate the e...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
The Impact of Reference Quality on Automatic MT Evaluation
Language resource quality is crucial in NLP. Many of the resources used are derived from data created by human beings out of an NLP context, especially regarding MT and reference ...
Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Multilingual Alignments by Monolingual String Differences
We propose a method to obtain subsentential alignments from several languages simultaneously. The method handles several languages at once, and avoids the complexity explosion due...
Adrien Lardilleux, Yves Lepage
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Underspecified Modelling of Complex Discourse Constraints
We introduce a new type of discourse constraints for the interaction of discourse relations with the configuration of discourse segments. We examine corpus-extracted examples as s...
Markus Egg, Michaela Regneri
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Generation under Space Constraints
Reasoning about how much to generate when space is limited is a challenge for generation systems. This paper presents two algorithms that exploit the discourse structure to decide...
Cécile Paris, Nathalie Colineau, Andrew Lam...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Hindi Compound Verbs and their Automatic Extraction
We analyse Hindi complex predicates and propose linguistic tests for their detection. This analysis enables us to identify a category of V+V complex predicates called lexical comp...
Debasri Chakrabarti, Hemang Mandalia, Ritwik Priya...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Construction of an Infrastructure for Providing Users with Suitable Language Resources
Our research organization has been constructing a large scale database named SHACHI by collecting detailed meta information on language resources (LRs) in Asia and Western countri...
Hitomi Tohyama, Shunsuke Kozawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto...