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NAACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, Mari Ostendorf
NAACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Multiple Similarity Measures and Source-Pair Information in Story Link Detection
State-of-the-art story link detection systems, that is, systems that determine whether two stories are about the same event or linked, are usually based on the cosine-similarity m...
Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Thorsten Brants
NAACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
NAACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Paraphrasing Predicates from Written Language to Spoken Language Using the Web
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...
Nobuhiro Kaji, Masashi Okamoto, Sadao Kurohashi
NAACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources
We examine the utility of multiple types of turn-level and contextual linguistic features for automatically predicting student emotions in human-human spoken tutoring dialogues. W...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman
Computational Linguistics
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