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Given the development
of
<term>
storage media and networks
</term>
one could just record and store a
<term>
conversation
</term>
for documentation .
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#20
Given the development of storage media and networks one could just record and store a conversation for documentation. |
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To support engaging human users in robust ,
<term>
mixed-initiative speech dialogue interactions
</term>
which reach beyond current capabilities in
<term>
dialogue systems
</term>
, the
<term>
DARPA Communicator program
</term>
[ 1 ] is funding the development
of
a
<term>
distributed message-passing infrastructure
</term>
for
<term>
dialogue systems
</term>
which all
<term>
Communicator
</term>
participants are using .
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#238
To support engaging human users in robust, mixed-initiative speech dialogue interactions which reach beyond current capabilities in dialogue systems, the DARPA Communicator program [1] is funding the development of a distributed message-passing infrastructure for dialogue systems which all Communicator participants are using. |
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We describe how this information is used in a
<term>
prototype system
</term>
designed to support
<term>
information workers
</term>
' access to a
<term>
pharmaceutical news archive
</term>
as part
of
their
<term>
industry watch
</term>
function .
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#338
We describe how this information is used in a prototype system designed to support information workers' access to a pharmaceutical news archive as part of their industry watch function. |
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The
<term>
CCLINC Korean-to-English translation system
</term>
consists
of
two
<term>
core modules
</term>
,
<term>
language understanding and generation modules
</term>
mediated by a
<term>
language neutral meaning representation
</term>
called a
<term>
semantic frame
</term>
.
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#417
The CCLINC Korean-to-English translation system consists of two core modules, language understanding and generation modules mediated by a language neutral meaning representation called a semantic frame. |
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The purpose
of
this research is to test the efficacy of applying
<term>
automated evaluation techniques
</term>
, originally devised for the
<term>
evaluation
</term>
of
<term>
human language learners
</term>
, to the
<term>
output
</term>
of
<term>
machine translation ( MT ) systems
</term>
.
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#546
The purpose of this research is to test the efficacy of applying automated evaluation techniques, originally devised for the evaluation of human language learners, to the output of machine translation (MT) systems. |
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We have built and will demonstrate an application
of
this approach called
<term>
LCS-Marine
</term>
.
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#822
We have built and will demonstrate an application of this approach called LCS-Marine. |
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Recent advances in
<term>
Automatic Speech Recognition technology
</term>
have put the goal
of
naturally sounding
<term>
dialog systems
</term>
within reach .
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#922
Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition technology have put the goal of naturally sounding dialog systems within reach. |
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In this paper , we address the problem
of
combining several
<term>
language models ( LMs )
</term>
.
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#1035
In this paper, we address the problem of combining several language models (LMs). |
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We describe a three-tiered approach for
<term>
evaluation
</term>
of
<term>
spoken dialogue systems
</term>
.
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#1202
We describe a three-tiered approach for evaluationof spoken dialogue systems. |
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<term>
Sentence planning
</term>
is a set
of
inter-related but distinct tasks , one of which is
<term>
sentence scoping
</term>
, i.e. the choice of
<term>
syntactic structure
</term>
for elementary
<term>
speech acts
</term>
and the decision of how to combine them into one or more
<term>
sentences
</term>
.
|
#1298
Sentence planning is a set of inter-related but distinct tasks, one of which is sentence scoping, i.e. the choice of syntactic structure for elementary speech acts and the decision of how to combine them into one or more sentences. |
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In this paper , we compare the relative effects
of
<term>
segment order
</term>
,
<term>
segmentation
</term>
and
<term>
segment contiguity
</term>
on the
<term>
retrieval performance
</term>
of a
<term>
translation memory system
</term>
.
|
#1470
In this paper, we compare the relative effects of segment order, segmentation and segment contiguity on the retrieval performance of a translation memory system. |
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The theoretical study
of
the
<term>
range concatenation grammar [ RCG ] formalism
</term>
has revealed many attractive properties which may be used in
<term>
NLP
</term>
.
|
#1600
The theoretical study of the range concatenation grammar [RCG] formalism has revealed many attractive properties which may be used in NLP. |
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While
<term>
paraphrasing
</term>
is critical both for
<term>
interpretation and generation
of
natural language
</term>
, current systems use manual or semi-automatic methods to collect
<term>
paraphrases
</term>
.
|
#1762
While paraphrasing is critical both for interpretation and generation of natural language, current systems use manual or semi-automatic methods to collect paraphrases. |
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This paper presents a
<term>
formal analysis
</term>
for a large class
of
<term>
words
</term>
called
<term>
alternative markers
</term>
, which includes
<term>
other ( than )
</term>
,
<term>
such ( as )
</term>
, and
<term>
besides
</term>
.
|
#1825
This paper presents a formal analysis for a large class of words called alternative markers, which includes other (than), such (as), and besides. |
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We provide a
<term>
logical definition
</term>
of
<term>
Minimalist grammars
</term>
, that are
<term>
Stabler 's formalization
</term>
of
<term>
Chomsky 's minimalist program
</term>
.
|
#1931
We provide a logical definitionof Minimalist grammars, that are Stabler's formalization of Chomsky's minimalist program. |
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<term>
Techniques for automatically training
</term>
modules
of
a
<term>
natural language generator
</term>
have recently been proposed , but a fundamental concern is whether the
<term>
quality
</term>
of
<term>
utterances
</term>
produced with
<term>
trainable components
</term>
can compete with
<term>
hand-crafted template-based or rule-based approaches
</term>
.
|
#2017
Techniques for automatically training modules of a natural language generator have recently been proposed, but a fundamental concern is whether the quality of utterances produced with trainable components can compete with hand-crafted template-based or rule-based approaches. |
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We describe a set
of
<term>
supervised machine learning
</term>
experiments centering on the construction of
<term>
statistical models
</term>
of
<term>
WH-questions
</term>
.
|
#2128
We describe a set of supervised machine learning experiments centering on the construction of statistical models of WH-questions. |
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This paper describes a method for
<term>
utterance classification
</term>
that does not require
<term>
manual transcription
</term>
of
<term>
training data
</term>
.
|
#2219
This paper describes a method for utterance classification that does not require manual transcriptionof training data. |
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Motivated by the success
of
<term>
ensemble methods
</term>
in
<term>
machine learning
</term>
and other areas of
<term>
natural language processing
</term>
, we developed a
<term>
multi-strategy and multi-source approach to question answering
</term>
which is based on combining the results from different
<term>
answering agents
</term>
searching for
<term>
answers
</term>
in multiple
<term>
corpora
</term>
.
|
#2310
Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multi-strategy and multi-source approach to question answering which is based on combining the results from different answering agents searching for answers in multiple corpora. |
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In this paper we present
<term>
ONTOSCORE
</term>
, a system for scoring sets
of
<term>
concepts
</term>
on the basis of an
<term>
ontology
</term>
.
|
#2447
In this paper we present ONTOSCORE, a system for scoring sets of concepts on the basis of an ontology. |