NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 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 6 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 6 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...
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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...