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NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations
In this paper we propose a data intensive approach for inferring sentence-internal temporal relations, which relies on a simple probabilistic model and assumes no manual coding. W...
Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks
Previous work demonstrated that web counts can be used to approximate bigram frequencies, and thus should be useful for a wide variety of NLP tasks. So far, only two generation ta...
Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding for statistical machine translation. This statistical approach aims to minimize expected loss of translation errors under loss functio...
Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
In statistical machine translation, the currently best performing systems are based in some way on phrases or word groups. We describe the baseline phrase-based translation system...
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development
We use χ2 to investigate the context dependency of student affect in our computer tutoring dialogues, targeting uncertainty in student answers in 3 automatically monitorable cont...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Lit...
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The Automated Text Adaptation Tool
Jill Burstein, Jane Shore, John Sabatini, Yong-Won...
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Conversational In-Car Dialog System
In this demonstration we present a conversational dialog system for automobile drivers. The system provides a voicebased interface to playing music, finding restaurants, and navi...
Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, ...