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NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Implicit Trajectory Modeling through Gaussian Transition Models for Speech Recognition
It is well known that frame independence assumption is a fundamental limitation of current HMM based speech recognition systems. By treating each speech frame independently, HMMs ...
Hua Yu, Tanja Schultz
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Automating XML markup of text documents
We present a novel system for automatically marking up text documents into XML and discuss the benefits of XML markup for intelligent information retrieval. The system uses the Se...
Shazia Akhtar, Ronan G. Reilly, John Dunnion
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Cognates Can Improve Statistical Translation Models
We report results of experiments aimed at improving the translation quality by incorporating the cognate information into translation models. The results confirm that the cognate...
Grzegorz Kondrak, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight
NAACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner
Sentence planning is a set of inter-related but distinct tasks, one of which is sentence scoping, i.e. the choice of syntactic structure for elementary speech acts and the decisio...
Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati
NAACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Tree-Cut and a Lexicon Based on Systematic Polysemy
This paper describes a lexicon organized around systematic polysemy: a set of word senses that are related in systematic and predictable ways. The lexicon is derived by a fully au...
Noriko Tomuro
NAACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies
We propose an algorithm to automatically induce the morphology of inflectional languages using only text corpora and no human input. Our algorithm combines cues from orthography, ...
Patrick Schone, Daniel Jurafsky
NAACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Applying Co-Training Methods to Statistical Parsing
We propose a novel Co-Training method for statistical parsing. The algorithm takes as input a small corpus (9695 sentences) annotated with parse trees, a dictionary of possible le...
Anoop Sarkar
NAACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints?
Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, ...