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LREC
2010
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The German Reference Corpus DeReKo: A Primordial Sample for Linguistic Research
This paper describes DEREKO (DEUTSCHES REFERENZKORPUS), the Archive of General Reference Corpora of Contemporary Written German at the Institut f
Marc Kupietz, Cyril Belica, Holger Keibel, Andreas...
LREC
2010
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The PlayMancer Database: A Multimodal Affect Database in Support of Research and Development Activities in Serious Game Environm
The present paper reports on a recent effort that resulted in the establishment of a unique multimodal affect database, referred to as the PlayMancer database. This database was c...
Theodoros Kostoulas, Otilia Kocsis, Todor Ganchev,...
LREC
2010
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A Recursive Treatment of Collocations
This article discusses the treatment of collocations in the context of a long-term project on the development of multilingual NLP tools. Besides "classical" two-word col...
Luka Nerima, Eric Wehrli, Violeta Seretan
LREC
2010
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Expanding the Lexicon for a Resource-Poor Language Using a Morphological Analyzer and a Web Crawler
Resource-poor languages may suffer from a lack of any of the basic resources that are fundamental to computational linguistics, including an adequate digital lexicon. Given the re...
Michael Gasser
LREC
2010
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Vergina: A Modern Greek Speech Database for Speech Synthesis
The present paper outlines the Vergina speech database, which was developed in support of research and development of corpus-based unit selection and statistical parametric speech...
Alexandros Lazaridis, Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor G...
LREC
2010
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Principled Construction of Elicited Imitation Tests
In this paper we discuss the methodology behind the construction of elicited imitation (EI) test items. First we examine varying uses for EI tests in research and in testing overa...
Carl Christensen, Ross Hendrickson, Deryle Lonsdal...
LREC
2010
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Merging Specialist Taxonomies and Folk Taxonomies in Wordnets - A case Study of Plants, Animals and Foods in the Danish Wordnet
In this paper we investigate the problem of merging specialist taxonomies with the more intuitive folk taxonomies in lexical-semantic resources like wordnets; and we focus in part...
Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Anna Braasc...
LREC
2010
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An Automatically Built Named Entity Lexicon for Arabic
We have successfully adapted and extended the automatic Multilingual, Interoperable Named Entity Lexicon approach to Arabic, using Arabic WordNet (AWN) and Arabic Wikipedia (AWK)....
Mohammed Attia, Antonio Toral, Lamia Tounsi, Monic...
LREC
2010
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Czech Information Retrieval with Syntax-based Language Models
In this paper, we deal with information retrieval approach based on language model paradigm, which has been intensively investigated in recent years. We propose, implement, and ev...
Jana Straková, Pavel Pecina
LREC
2010
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Building a System for Emotions Detection from Speech to Control an Affective Avatar
In this paper we describe a corpus set together from two sub-corpora. The CINEMO corpus contains acted emotional expression obtained by playing dubbing exercises. This new protoco...
Mátyás Brendel, Riccardo Zaccarelli,...