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NAACL
1994
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Pattern Matching in a Linguistically-Motivated Text Understanding System
An ongoing debate in text understanding efforts centers on the use of pattern-matching techniques, which some have characterized as "designed to ignore as much text as possib...
Damaris M. Ayuso
NAACL
1994
13 years 4 months ago
Adaptation to New Microphones Using Tied-Mixture Normalization
Anastasios Anastasakost, Francis Kubala, John Makh...
NAACL
1994
13 years 4 months ago
The Penn Treebank: Annotating Predicate Argument Structure
The Penn Treebank has recently implemented a new syntactic annotation scheme, designed to highlight aspects of predicate-argument structure. This paper discusses the implementatio...
Mitchell P. Marcus, Grace Kim, Mary Ann Marcinkiew...
NAACL
1994
13 years 4 months ago
Speech-Based Retrieval Using Semantic Co-Occurrence Filtering
In this paper we demonstrate that speech recognition can be effectively applied to information retrieval (IR) applications. Our system exploits the fact that the intended words of...
Julian Kupiec, Don Kimber, Vijay Balasubramanian
NAACL
1994
13 years 4 months ago
Tree-Based State Tying for High Accuracy Modelling
The key problem to be faced when building a HMM-based continuous speech recogniser is maintaining the balance between model complexity and available training data. For large vocab...
S. J. Young, J. J. Odell, Philip C. Woodland
NAACL
1994
13 years 4 months ago
Principles of Template Design
The functionality of systems that extract information from texts can be specified quite simply: the input is a stream of texts and the output is some representation of the informa...
Jerry R. Hobbs, David J. Israel