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NAACL
2004
15 years 1 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 1 months ago
Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval
Recent work on spoken document retrieval has suggested that it is adequate to take the singlebest output of ASR, and perform text retrieval on this output. This is reasonable enou...
Murat Saraclar, Richard Sproat
NAACL
2004
15 years 1 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 1 months ago
Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines
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...
Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James ...
NAACL
2004
15 years 1 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
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...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
Computational Linguistics
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