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LREC
2010
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Idioms in Context: The IDIX Corpus
Idioms and other figuratively used expressions pose considerable problems to natural language processing applications because they are very frequent and often behave idiosyncratic...
Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li, Philip Gorinski, Xa...
LREC
2010
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A Fact-aligned Corpus of Numerical Expressions
We describe a corpus of numerical expressions, developed as part of the NUMGEN project. The corpus contains newspaper articles and scientific papers in which exactly the same nume...
Sandra Williams, Richard Power
LREC
2010
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Active Learning and Crowd-Sourcing for Machine Translation
In recent years, corpus based approaches to machine translation have become predominant, with Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) being the most actively progressing area. Succe...
Vamshi Ambati, Stephan Vogel, Jaime G. Carbonell
LREC
2010
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The GIVE-2 Corpus of Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments
We present the GIVE-2 Corpus, a new corpus of human instruction giving. The corpus was collected by asking one person in each pair of subjects to guide the other person towards co...
Andrew Gargett, Konstantina Garoufi, Alexander Kol...
LREC
2010
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Incorporating Speech Synthesis in the Development of a Mobile Platform for e-learning
This presentation and accompanying demonstration focuses on the development of a mobile platform for e-learning purposes with enhanced text-to-speech capabilities. It reports on a...
Justus Roux, Pieter Scholtz, Daleen Klop, Claus Po...
LREC
2010
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A Study of the Influence of Speech Type on Automatic Language Recognition Performance
Automatic language recognition on spontaneous speech has experienced a rapid development in the last few years. This development has been in part due to the competitive technologi...
Alejandro Abejón, Doroteo Torre Toledano, D...
LREC
2010
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Partial Parsing as a Method to Expedite Dependency Annotation of a Hindi Treebank
The paper describes an approach to expedite the process of manual annotation of a Hindi dependency treebank which is currently under development. We propose a way by which consist...
Mridul Gupta, Vineet Yadav, Samar Husain, Dipti Mi...
LREC
2010
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An Evaluation of Technologies for Knowledge Base Population
Previous content extraction evaluations have neglected to address problems which complicate the incorporation of extracted information into an existing knowledge base. Previous qu...
Paul McNamee, Hoa Trang Dang, Heather Simpson, Pat...
LREC
2010
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KALAKA: A TV Broadcast Speech Database for the Evaluation of Language Recognition Systems
A speech database, named KALAKA, was created to support the Albayzin 2008 Evaluation of Language Recognition Systems, organized by the Spanish Network on Speech Technologies from ...
Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, Mikel Pe&nti...