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LREC
2008
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Deriving Rhetorical Complexity Data from the RST-DT Corpus
This paper describes a study of the levels at which different rhetorical relations occur in rhetorical structure trees. In a previous empirical study (Williams and Reiter, 2003) o...
Sandra Williams, Richard Power
LREC
2008
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Ontology Learning and Semantic Annotation: a Necessary Symbiosis
Semantic annotation of text requires the dynamic merging of linguistically structured information and a "world model", usually represented as a domain-specific ontology....
Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi, Simonetta Mon...
LREC
2008
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Portuguese-English Word Alignment: some Experiments
In this paper we describe some studies of Portuguese-English word alignment, focusing on (i) measuring the importance of the coupling between dictionaries and corpus; (ii) assessi...
Diana Santos, Alberto Simões
LREC
2008
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Statistical Evaluation of Information Distillation Systems
We describe a methodology for evaluating the statistical performance of information distillation systems and apply it to a simple illustrative example. (An information distiller p...
J. V. White, D. Hunter, J. D. Goldstein
LREC
2008
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Domain-Specific English-To-Spanish Translation of FrameNet
This paper is motivated by the demand for more linguistic resources for the study of languages and the improvement of those already existing. The first step in our work is the sel...
Mario Crespo Miguel, Paul Buitelaar
LREC
2008
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Linguistic Resources for Reconstructing Spontaneous Speech Text
The output of a speech recognition system is not always ideal for subsequent downstream processing, in part because speakers themselves often make mistakes. A system would accompl...
Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek
LREC
2008
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Approximating Learning Curves for Active-Learning-Driven Annotation
Active learning (AL) is getting more and more popular as a methodology to considerably reduce the annotation effort when building training material for statistical learning method...
Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn
LREC
2008
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Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview
Evaluation campaigns have become an established way to evaluate automatic systems which tackle the same task. This paper presents the first edition of the Anaphora Resolution Exer...
Constantin Orasan, Dan Cristea, Ruslan Mitkov, Ant...
LREC
2008
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Evaluating and Extending the Coverage of HPSG Grammars: A Case Study for German
In this work, we examine and attempt to extend the coverage of a German HPSG grammar. We use the grammar to parse a corpus of newspaper text and evaluate the proportion of sentenc...
Jeremy Nicholson, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang 0003, Ti...