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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
What's There to Talk About? A Multi-Modal Model of Referring Behavior in the Presence of Shared Visual Information
This paper describes the development of a rule-based computational model that describes how a feature-based representation of shared visual information combines with linguistic cu...
Darren Gergle
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
An Approach to Summarizing Short Stories
This paper describes a system that produces extractive summaries of short works of literary fiction. The ultimate purpose of produced summaries is defined as helping a reader to d...
Anna Kazantseva
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Transformation-Based Learning for Improving Dictionary Tagging
We present an adaptive technique that enables users to produce a high quality dictionary parsed into its lexicographic components (headwords, pronunciations, parts of speech, tran...
Burcu Karagol-Ayan, David S. Doermann, Amy Weinber...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Structuring Knowledge for Reference Generation: A Clustering Algorithm
This paper discusses two problems that arise in the Generation of Referring Expressions: (a) numeric-valued attributes, such as size or location; (b) perspective-taking in referen...
Albert Gatt
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Addressee Identification in Face-to-Face Meetings
We present results on addressee identification in four-participants face-to-face meetings using Bayesian Network and Naive Bayes classifiers. First, we investigate how well the ad...
Natasa Jovanovic, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijhol...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Generating Statistical Language Models from Interpretation Grammars in Dialogue Systems
In this paper, we explore statistical language modelling for a speech-enabled MP3 player application by generating a corpus from the interpretation grammar written for the applica...
Rebecca Jonson
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Identifying Repair Targets in Action Control Dialogue
This paper proposes a method for dealing with repairs in action control dialogue to resolve participants' misunderstanding. The proposed method identifies the repair target b...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Annotation for All Semantic Layers in FrameNet
We describe a system for automatic annotation of English text in the FrameNet standard. In addition to the conventional annotation of frame elements and their semantic roles, we a...
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Segmentation of Multiparty Dialogue
In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically predicting segment boundaries in spoken multiparty dialogue. We extend prior work in two ways. We first apply approaches...
Pei-yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore, Steve Renals
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander