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NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
WordFreak: An Open Tool for Linguistic Annotation
WordFreak is a natural language annotation tool that has been designed to be easy to extend to new domains and tasks. Specifically, a plug-in architecture has been developed whic...
Thomas S. Morton, Jeremy LaCivita
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering
Recent TREC results have demonstrated the need for deeper text understanding methods. This paper introduces the idea of automated reasoning applied to question answering and shows...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda M. Harabag...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Semantic Extraction with Wide-Coverage Lexical Resources
We report on results of combining graphical modeling techniques with Information Extraction resources (Pattern Dictionary and Lexicon) for both frame and semantic role assignment....
Behrang Mohit, Srini Narayanan
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
TAP-XL: An Automated Analyst's Assistant
The TAP-XL Automated Analyst’s Assistant is an application designed to help an Englishspeaking analyst write a topical report, culling information from a large inflow of multili...
Sean Colbath, Francis Kubala
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems
This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition o...
Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Columbia's Newsblaster: New Features and Future Directions
Columbia’s Newsblaster tracking and summarization system is a robust system that clusters news into events, categorizes events into broad topics and summarizes multiple articles...
Kathleen McKeown, Regina Barzilay, John Chen, Davi...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One
Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Pra...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Robust Retrieval Engine for Proximal and Structural Search
Katsuya Masuda, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, To...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Story Link Detection and New Event Detection are Asymmetric
Story link detection has been regarded as a core technology for other Topic Detection and Tracking tasks such as new event detection. In this paper we analyze story link detection...
Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Thorsten Brants