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LREC
2008
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Complete and Consistent Annotation of WordNet using the Top Concept Ontology
This paper presents the complete and consistent ontological annotation of the nominal part of WordNet. The annotation has been carried out using the semantic features defined in t...
Javier Álvez, Jordi Atserias, Jordi Carrera...
LREC
2008
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Bridging the Gap between Linguists and Technology Developers: Large-Scale, Sociolinguistic Annotation for Dialect and Speaker Re
Recent years have seen increased interest within the speaker recognition community in high-level features including, for example, lexical choice, idiomatic expressions or syntacti...
Christopher Cieri, Stephanie Strassel, Meghan Lamm...
LREC
2008
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Acquiring a Taxonomy from the German Wikipedia
This paper presents the process of acquiring a large, domain independent, taxonomy from the German Wikipedia. We build upon a previously implemented platform that extracts a seman...
Laura Kassner, Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
LREC
2008
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Automatic Acquisition for low frequency lexical items
This paper addresses a specific case of the task of lexical acquisition understood as the induction of information about the linguistic characteristics of lexical items on the bas...
Núria Bel, Sergio Espeja, Montserrat Marimo...
LREC
2008
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The 2008 Oriental COCOSDA Book Project: in Commemoration of the First Decade of Sustained Activities in Asia
The purpose of Oriental COCOSDA is to provide the Asian community a platform to exchange ideas, to share information and to discuss regional matters on creation, utilization, diss...
Shuichi Itahashi, Chiu-yu Tseng
LREC
2008
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Building Affective Lexicons from Specific Corpora for Automatic Sentiment Analysis
Automatic sentiment analysis in texts has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Most of the approaches developed to classify texts or sentences as positive or negative...
Yves Bestgen
LREC
2008
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Automatic Assessment of Japanese Text Readability Based on a Textbook Corpus
This paper describes a method of readability measurement of Japanese texts based on a newly compiled textbook corpus. The textbook corpus consists of 1,478 sample passages extract...
Satoshi Sato, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Yohsuke Kondoh
LREC
2008
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Structural Metadata Annotation of Speech Corpora: Comparing Broadcast News and Broadcast Conversations
Structural metadata extraction (MDE) research aims to develop techniques for automatic conversion of raw speech recognition output to forms that are more useful to humans and to d...
Jáchym Kolár, Jan Svec
LREC
2008
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Developing Verb Frames for Hindi
This paper introduces an ongoing work on developing verb frames for Hindi. Verb frames capture syntactic commonalities of semantically related verbs. The main objective of this wo...
Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Lakshmi Bai, Dipti Mis...
LREC
2008
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Borrowing Language Resources for Development of Automatic Speech Recognition for Low- and Middle-Density Languages
In this paper we describe an approach that both creates crosslingual acoustic monophone model sets for speech recognition tasks and objectively predicts their performance without ...
Lynette Melnar, Chen Liu