An accurate identification dialog acts (DAs), which represent the illocutionary aspect of communication, is essential to support the understanding of human conversations. This re...
Silvia Quarteroni, Alexei V. Ivanov, Giuseppe Ricc...
This paper addresses the problem of developing appropriate features for use in direct modeling approaches to speech recognition, such as those based on Maximum Entropy models or S...
We present novel kernels based on structured and unstructured features for reranking the N-best hypotheses of conditional random fields (CRFs) applied to entity extraction. The fo...
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, Giusepp...
In this paper, we present an overview of generalized expectation criteria (GE), a simple, robust, scalable method for semi-supervised training using weakly-labeled data. GE fits m...
Automatic opinion recognition involves a number of related tasks, such as identifying the boundaries of opinion expression, determining their polarity, and determining their inten...