NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
The paper presents two approaches to interactively refining user search formulations and their evaluation in the new High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track of TREC-12...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
This paper describes an automatic method for acquiring hyponymy relations from HTML documents on the WWW. Hyponymy relations can play a crucial role in various natural language pr...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
This paper describes the application of discriminative reranking techniques to the problem of machine translation. For each sentence in the source language, we obtain from a basel...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Recent work on spoken document retrieval has suggested that it is adequate to take the singlebest output of ASR, and perform text retrieval on this output. This is reasonable enou...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
This paper reports some experiments that compare the accuracy and performance of two stochastic parsing systems. The currently popular Collins parser is a shallow parser whose out...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
There are a lot of differences between expressions used in written language and spoken language. It is one of the reasons why speech synthesis applications are prone to produce un...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
In this paper, we propose a machine learning algorithm for shallow semantic parsing, extending the work of Gildea and Jurafsky (2002), Surdeanu et al. (2003) and others. Our algor...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
End-to-end evaluations of conversational dialogue systems with naive users are currently uncovering severe usability problems that result in low task completion rates. Preliminary...