... “gold standard” to compare our output against.
5 Discussion
The work proposed herein aims to advance the state-
of- the-art in automatic summarization by offering a
means of generating abstractive ... Inderjeet Mani and Mark T. Maybury, edi-
tors, Advances in Automated Text Summarization. MIT
Press.
Regina Barzilay and Michael Elhadad. 1997. Using lex-
ical chains for text summar...
... presents a probabilistic
framework, QARLA, for the evaluation
of text summarisation systems. The in-
put of the framework is a set of man-
ual (reference) summaries, a set of base-
line (automatic) ... two automatic summaries a, a
and a
similarity measure x, if a is more distant to all
manual summaries than a
, then a cannot be better
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than a
. Formall...
... Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics:
A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation
Katrin Erk and Andrea Kowalski and Sebastian Pad
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o and Manfred Pinkal
Department of Computational ... implemented that will pro-
vide a graphical interface for the annotation. It will
display the syntactic structure and allow for a graph-
ical manipulation of semantic frame t...
... 2001).
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qtag exists as a downloadable JAR file and
can therefore be integrated into a platform inde-
pendent JAVA program. For more information, see
http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/omason/software/qtag.html
(last ... Google API can
be adjusted for the corresponding search task. The
tasks we used for our framework are a search in
the titles of the web pages and a search i...
... systems for
the syntactic analysis of substantial fragments of
natural language. These developments also
demonstrate that if natural language processing
systems are to be able to handle the grammatical ... the informational structure of the dictionary.
Similarly, choice of font can be varied for reasons of
appearance and occasionally information normally
associated with o...
... seen as
a long-range research prt~gram rather than as a
short-term goal.
Motiva!ion
Rcasearch on natural language processing sys-
tems today strives for the construction of robust
and portable ... a core vocabulary which is needed for handl-
ing any subject domain. 'llfis assumpti(m is also
shared by many researchers, and it tmdcrlies the
production of basic vocabul...
... annotated text corpora.
While the XML standard specifies a data model
and serialization format for XML, a semantics
is largely left to be defined for a particular ap-
plication. Many data models can ... project treat anno-
tation data in XML from any source as separate
annotation layers, provided the text nodes in each
layer contain the same base data. The base data is
extracted and k...
...
Ottawa, Ontario, KIS-5B6 CANADA
walid@eagle.hr.att.com
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to suggest that
quantifiers in natural languages do not have a
fixed truth functional meaning as ...
context, as well as time and memory
constraints 1.
1 Introduction
Virtually all computational models of quantification are
based one some variation of the theory of generalized
qu...
... Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Student Research Workshop, pages 7–12,
Uppsala, Sweden, 13 July 2010.
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2010 Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards Relational POMDPs for Adaptive Dialogue Management
Pierre ... interactions raises a number of
challenges, one of which is dialogue management.
The role of dialogue management is to determine
which communicative actions to tak...
... that their sys-
tem represents a powerful way of dealing with su-
perlatives computationally, a closer inspection of
their approach, and in particular of the gold stan-
dard data set, reveals ... Elements of a Computational Treat-
ment of Superlatives
For an interpretation of comparisons, two things
are generally of interest: What is being compared,
and with respect t...