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NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Expansion of Equivalent Sentence Set Based on Syntactic Substitution
In this paper, we propose an automatic quantitative expansion method for a sentence set that contains sentences of the same meaning (called an equivalent sentence set). This task ...
Kenji Imamura, Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Detection Of Agreement vs. Disagreement In Meetings: Training With Unlabeled Data
To support summarization of automatically transcribed meetings, we introduce a classifier to recognize agreement or disagreement utterances, utilizing both word-based and prosodi...
Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, Elizabeth Shriberg
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
LM Studies on Filled Pauses in Spontaneous Medical Dictation
We investigate the optimal LM treatment of abundant filled pauses (FP) in spontaneous monologues of a professional dictation task. Questions addressed here are (1) how to deal wi...
Jochen Peters
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Inducing History Representations for Broad Coverage Statistical Parsing
We present a neural network method for inducing representations of parse histories and using these history representations to estimate the probabilities needed by a statistical le...
James Henderson
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Language and Task Independent Text Categorization with Simple Language Models
We present a simple method for language independent and task independent text categorization learning, based on character-level n-gram language models. Our approach uses simple in...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Rhetorical Parsing with Underspecification and Forests
We combine a surface based approach to discourse parsing with an explicit rhetorical grammar in order to efficiently construct an underspecified representation of possible discour...
Thomas Hanneforth, Silvan Heintze, Manfred Stede
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines
In this paper, the automatic labeling of semantic roles in a sentence is considered as a chunking task. We define a semantic chunk as the sequence of words that fills a semantic...
Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Categorial Variation Database for English
We describe our approach to the construction and evaluation of a large-scale database called “CatVar” which contains categorial variations of English lexemes. Due to the preva...
Nizar Habash, Bonnie J. Dorr