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2008
14 years 11 months ago
Switching to Real-Time Tasks in Multi-Tasking Dialogue
In this paper we describe an empirical study of human-human multi-tasking dialogues (MTD), where people perform multiple verbal tasks overlapped in time. We examined how conversan...
Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Andrew L. Kun
COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Reading the Markets: Forecasting Public Opinion of Political Candidates by News Analysis
Media reporting shapes public opinion which can in turn influence events, particularly in political elections, in which candidates both respond to and shape public perception of t...
Kevin Lerman, Ari Gilder, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pe...
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COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Random Restarts in Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Och's (2003) minimum error rate training (MERT) procedure is the most commonly used method for training feature weights in statistical machine translation (SMT) models. The u...
Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk
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COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
PNR2: Ranking Sentences with Positive and Negative Reinforcement for Query-Oriented Update Summarization
Query-oriented update summarization is an emerging summarization task very recently. It brings new challenges to the sentence ranking algorithms that require not only to locate th...
Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He
COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
A Grammar Checking System for Punjabi
This article provides description about the grammar checking system developed for detecting various grammatical errors in Punjabi texts. This system utilizes a fullform lexicon fo...
Mandeep Singh Gill, Gurpreet Singh Lehal