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2008
15 years 28 days ago
A Complete and Modestly Funny System for Generating and Performing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy
We present a complete system that generates Japanese stand-up comedy. Different modules generating different types of jokes are tied together into a performance where all jokes ar...
Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach
This paper considers the problem of automatic assessment of local coherence. We present a novel entity-based representation of discourse which is inspired by Centering Theory and ...
Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata
COLING
2008
15 years 28 days ago
Generation of Referring Expressions: Managing Structural Ambiguities
Existing algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions tend to generate distinguishing descriptions at the semantic level, disregarding the ways in which surface issues c...
Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Kees van Deemter, Graeme Ritc...
COLING
2008
15 years 28 days ago
Good Neighbors Make Good Senses: Exploiting Distributional Similarity for Unsupervised WSD
We present an automatic method for senselabeling of text in an unsupervised manner. The method makes use of distributionally similar words to derive an automatically labeled train...
Samuel Brody, Mirella Lapata
COLING
2008
15 years 28 days ago
A Concept-Centered Approach to Noun-Compound Interpretation
A noun-compound is a compressed proposition that requires an audience to recover the implicit relationship between two concepts that are expressed as nouns. Listeners recover this...
Cristina Butnariu, Tony Veale