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2008
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Mixture Model POMDPs for Efficient Handling of Uncertainty in Dialogue Management
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
James Henderson, Oliver Lemon
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Mining Wikipedia Revision Histories for Improving Sentence Compression
A well-recognized limitation of research on supervised sentence compression is the dearth of available training data. We propose a new and bountiful resource for such training dat...
Elif Yamangil, Rani Nelken
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Inducing Gazetteers for Named Entity Recognition by Large-Scale Clustering of Dependency Relations
We propose using large-scale clustering of dependency relations between verbs and multiword nouns (MNs) to construct a gazetteer for named entity recognition (NER). Since dependen...
Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Combining Source and Target Language Information for Name Tagging of Machine Translation Output
A Named Entity Recognizer (NER) generally has worse performance on machine translated text, because of the poor syntax of the MT output and other errors in the translation. As som...
Shasha Liao