COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We present a probabilistic, salience-based approach to the interpretation of pointing gestures together with spoken utterances. Our mechanism models dependencies between spatial a...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We conduct a series of Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging experiments using Expectation Maximization (EM), Variational Bayes (VB) and Gibbs Sampling (GS) against the Chinese Penn Treeba...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We present GENSEM, a tool for generating input semantic representations for two sentence generators based on the same reversible Tree Adjoining Grammar. We then show how GENSEM ca...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Existing works indicate that the absence of explicit discourse connectives makes it difficult to recognize implicit discourse relations. In this paper we attempt to overcome this ...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
In statistical machine translation, decoding without any reordering constraint is an NP-hard problem. Inversion Transduction Grammars (ITGs) exploit linguistic structure and can w...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Metaphorical and contextual affect detection from open-ended text-based dialogue is challenging but essential for the building of effective intelligent user interfaces. In this pa...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Several sets of explanatory variables
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
This article presents an original lexical unit extraction system for Chinese. The method is based on an incremental process driven by an association score featuring a minimal reso...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We demonstrate the use of context features, namely, names of places, and unlabelled data for the detection of personal name language of origin. While some early work used either r...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We present a theoretical and empirical comparative analysis of the two dominant categories of approaches in Chinese word segmentation: word-based models and character-based models...