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NAACL
2004
14 years 10 months ago
Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations
In this paper we propose a data intensive approach for inferring sentence-internal temporal relations, which relies on a simple probabilistic model and assumes no manual coding. W...
Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides
NAACL
2004
14 years 10 months ago
The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks
Previous work demonstrated that web counts can be used to approximate bigram frequencies, and thus should be useful for a wide variety of NLP tasks. So far, only two generation ta...
Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller
NAACL
2004
14 years 10 months ago
A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
NAACL
2004
14 years 10 months ago
Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding for statistical machine translation. This statistical approach aims to minimize expected loss of translation errors under loss functio...
Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne
NAACL
2004
14 years 10 months ago
Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
In statistical machine translation, the currently best performing systems are based in some way on phrases or word groups. We describe the baseline phrase-based translation system...
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
NAACL
2007
14 years 10 months ago
Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development
We use χ2 to investigate the context dependency of student affect in our computer tutoring dialogues, targeting uncertainty in student answers in 3 automatically monitorable cont...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Lit...
NAACL
2007
14 years 10 months ago
The Automated Text Adaptation Tool
Jill Burstein, Jane Shore, John Sabatini, Yong-Won...
NAACL
2007
14 years 10 months ago
A Conversational In-Car Dialog System
In this demonstration we present a conversational dialog system for automobile drivers. The system provides a voicebased interface to playing music, finding restaurants, and navi...
Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, ...