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AbstractIn this paper the dialogue act annotation of naive and expert annotators, both annotating the same data, are compared in order to characterise the insights annotations made by different kind of annotators may provide for evaluating dialogue act tagsets. It is argued that the agreement among naive annotators provides insight …...

AbstractThe paper provides a general introduction to the CLARIN project, a large-scale European research infrastructure project designed to establish an integrated and interoperable infrastructure of language resources and technologies. The goal is to make language resources and technology much more accessible to all researchers working with language material, particularly non-expert …...

AbstractThe emerging area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has proven to add an interesting dimension to many research projects. Within the language-sites initiative we have brought together a broad range of links to digital language corpora and resources. Via Google Earth’s visually appealing 3D-interface users can spin the globe, zoom …...

AbstractThe Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) seeks to provide its members with quality linguistic resources and services. In order to pursue these ideals and to remain current, LDC monitors the needs and sentiments of its communities. One mechanism LDC uses to generate feedback on consortium and resource issues is the LDC …...

AbstractThe ACL Anthology is a digital archive of conference and journal papers in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Its primary purpose is to serve as a reference repository of research results, but we believe that it can also be an object of study and a platform for research in …...

AbstractIn this paper we present how resources and tools developed within the Human Language Technology Group at the University of Belgrade can be used for tuning queries before submitting them to a web search engine. We argue that the selection of words chosen for a query, which are of paramount …...

AbstractThis paper deals with the relationship between weblog content and time. With the proposed temporal mutual information, we analyze the collocations in time dimension, and the interesting collocations related to special events. The temporal mutual information is employed to observe the strength of term-to-term associations over time. An event detection …...

AbstractIn this article we present a method for combining different information retrieval models in order to increase the retrieval performance in a Speech Information Retrieval task. The formulas for combining the models are tuned on training data. Then the system is evaluated on test data. The task is particularly difficult …...

AbstractThe IDEX system is a prototype of an interactive dynamic Information Extraction (IE) system. A user of the system expresses an information request in the form of a topic description, which is used for an initial search in order to retrieve a relevant set of documents. On basis of this …...

AbstractThe PIT corpus is a German multi-media corpus of multi-party dialogues recorded in a Wizard-of-Oz environment at the University of Ulm. The scenario involves two human dialogue partners interacting with a multi-modal dialogue system in the domain of restaurant selection. In this paper we present the characteristics of the data …...

. We investigated the effects of processing Swedish compounds for phrase-based SMT between Swedish and English. Compounds were split in a pre-processing step using an unsupervised empirical method. After translation into Swedish, compounds were merged, using a novel merging algorithm. We investigated two ways of handling compound parts, by marking …...

. This paper reports preliminary results of an evaluation during which two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT were compared in a hospital setting. The more restricted version (V.1) only allows Yes-No answers and short elliptical sentences, while the less restricted version (V.2) allows Yes-No …...

. Context-sensitive alignments are shown to be frequent in hand-aligned parallel corpora, e.g. in 24%–85% of the sentence pairs in the corpora documented in [GPCC08]. A O(|G|n6) time strict extension of inversion transduction grammars (ITGs) [Wu97] called (2,2)-BRCGs is proposed in [Søg08] that induces such alignments. The increase in generative …...

. This paper presents a language independent methodology for automatically extracting bilingual lexicon entries from the web without the need of resources like parallel or comparable corpora, POS tagging, nor an initial bilingual lexicon. It is suitable for specialized domains where bilingual lexicon entries are scarce. The input for the …...

. This paper focuses on domain specific use of MT with a special focus on SMT in the workflow of a Language Service Provider (LSP). We report on the feedback of post-editors using fluency/adequacy evaluation and the evaluation metric ’Usability’, understood in this context as where users on a three …...

. We present a phrase-based statistical alignment model togheter with a set of different smoothing techniques to be applied when the best phrase-to-phrase alignment for a pair of sentences is to be computed. We follow a loglinear approach, which allows us to introduce different scoring functions to control specific aspects …...

When we describe an object in order to en- able a listener to identify it, we often do so by indicating the location of that object with re- spect to other objects in a scene. This requires the use of a relational referring expression; while these are very common, they …...

Although punctuation is pervasive in written text, their treatment in parsers and corpora is often second-class. We examine the treatment of commas in CCGbank, a wide-coverage corpus for Com- binatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), re- analysing its comma structures in order to eliminate a class of redundant rules, obtaining a more …...

This paper presents our efforts at developing an Indonesian morphological analyser that pro- vides a detailed analysis of the rich affixation process1. We model Indonesian morphology us- ing a two-level morphology approach, decom- posing the process into a set of morphotactic and morphophonemic rules. These rules are modelled as a …...

Automated recognition of the semantic re- lationship between two nouns in a sentence is useful for a wide variety of tasks in NLP. Previous approaches have used ker- nel methods with semantic and lexical evi- dence for classification. We present a sys- tem based on a maximum entropy classifier which …...