EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
While significant effort has been put into annotating linguistic resources for several languages, there are still many left that have only small amounts of such resources. This p...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
One major bottleneck in conversational systems is their incapability in interpreting unexpected user language inputs such as out-ofvocabulary words. To overcome this problem, conv...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Compared to the telephone, email based customer care is increasingly becoming the preferred channel of communication for corporations and customers. Most email-based customer care...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
In this paper we address the issue of automatically assigning information status to discourse entities. Using an annotated corpus of conversational English and exploiting morpho-s...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
We propose a general method for reranker construction which targets choosing the candidate with the least expected loss, rather than the most probable candidate. Different approac...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Integer Linear Programming has recently been used for decoding in a number of probabilistic models in order to enforce global constraints. However, in certain applications, such a...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
This paper describes our attempt at NomBank-based automatic Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). NomBank is a project at New York University to annotate the argument structures for commo...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
We propose a supervised, two-phase framework to address the problem of paraphrase recognition (PR). Unlike most PR systems that focus on sentence similarity, our framework detects...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
For transliterating foreign words into Chinese, the pronunciation of a source word is spelled out with Kanji characters. Because Kanji comprises ideograms, an individual pronuncia...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Word clustering is important for automatic thesaurus construction, text classification, and word sense disambiguation. Recently, several studies have reported using the web as a c...