NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Service includes a capability that labels sentences in student writing with essay-based discourse elements (e.g., thesis statements). We descri...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
With the increasing use of research paper search engines, such as CiteSeer, for both literature search and hiring decisions, the accuracy of such systems is of paramount importanc...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Systems that automatically discover semantic classes have emerged in part to address the limitations of broad-coverage lexical resources such as WordNet and Cyc. The current state...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
This paper investigates the usefulness of sentence-internal prosodic cues in syntactic parsing of transcribed speech. Intuitively, prosodic cues would seem to provide much the sam...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Many probabilistic models for natural language are now written in terms of hierarchical tree structure. Tree-based modeling still lacks many of the standard tools taken for grante...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Organizations are increasingly turning to spoken dialog systems for automated call routing to reduce call center costs. To maintain quality service even in cases of failure, these...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
In this paper, we will compare and evaluate the effectiveness of different statistical methods in the task of cross-document coreference resolution. We created entity models for d...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Supervised estimation methods are widely seen as being superior to semi and fully unsupervised methods. However, supervised methods crucially rely upon training sets that need to ...