... each paid reward.• Qualifications To improve the data quality, a HIT can also be attached to certain tests,“qualifications” that are either system-providedor created by the requester. An example ... the assign-ments have been completed.• Rewards At upload time, each HIT has to beassigned a fixed reward, that cannot be changedlater. Minimum reward is $0.01. Amazon.comcollects a 10% (or a ... excess of information. FAQ-pages tend to alsoanswer questions which are not asked, and also con-tain practical examples. Human-powered answersoften contain unrelated information and discourse-like...
... project manager, and auditor.DedicationErienne, Kristina, and AndyMichael Jordan said it best, thus, what more can I say…I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't ... participates in the St. Louis InfraGard chapter.John W. Rado is a geospatial analyst at National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) in St.Louis, Missouri. John has worked for NIMA since January ... containsinappropriate material. Also assume there are several people involved, that one individual initiallysent the inappropriate e−mail and several additional individuals passed (e−mailed/forwarded) itaround....
... Computational LinguisticsCreating a manually error-tagged and shallow-parsed learner corpus Ryo NagataKonan University8-9-1 Okamoto,Kobe 658-0072 Japanrnagata @ konan-u.ac.jp.Edward Whittaker ... 44th Annual Meeting of ACL, pages 241–248.Katsuaki Okihara. 1985. English writing (in Japanese).Taishukan, Tokyo.Alla Rozovskaya and Dan Roth. 201 0a. Annotating ESLerrors: Challenges and rewords. ... Vera SheinmanThe Japan Institute forEducational Measurement Inc.3-2-4 Kita-Aoyama, Tokyo, 107-0061 Japanwhittaker,sheinman @jiem.co.jpAbstractThe availability of learner corpora, especiallythose...
... sentiments for a variety of topics and corresponding targets are potentially involved (Riloff and Wiebe., 2003; Sarmento et al., 2009). Alternative approaches to automatic and manual construction ... Natu-ral Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague. Krippendorff, Klaus. 2004. Content Analysis: An Intro-duction to Its Methodology, 2nd Edition. Sage Publi-cations, ... 564–568,Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsLiars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political debates Paula Carvalho...
... pitch, amplitude and pronuncia-tion and users are given immediate feedback on the acceptability of each recording. Users can then rerecord an unacceptable utterance. Recordings are automatically ... utterance. This alignment is retained so that each utterance is automatically labeled. Once the entire corpus has been recorded, alignments are automatically refined based on specific individual ... naturalness and individuality one associates with one’s own voice. Individuals with difficulty speak-ing can be any age, gender, and from any part of the country, with regional dialects and...
... hand-crafted sense-annotatedcorpora have been available (Agirre et al., 2007;Erk and Strapparava, 2012; Mihalcea et al., 2004),while WSD research for languages that lack thesecorpora has lagged behind ... the 3rd In-ternational Language Resources and Evaluation(LREC’02), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, pp. 609–612Santamar´ a, C., Gonzalo, J., Verdejo, F. 2003. Au-tomatic Association of Web Directories ... representative examples in Yarowsky’s ap-proach is performed completely manually and istherefore limited to the amount of data that canreasonably be annotated by hand.Leacock et al. (1998), Agirre...
... ~ A may be 40 M. Marcus, 1991. "Very Large Annotated Database of America~ English". DARPA Speech and Naawal Language Workshop, ~ Grove, Morgan Kaufmarm. F. Pereira and Y. Schabes, ... the Air Travel Information System (ATIS) spoken language corpus. Preliminary experiments yield 96% test set parsing accuracy. 1 Motivation As soon as a formal grammar characterizes a non- ... trivial part of a natural language, .almost every input string of reasonable length gets an unmanageably large number of different analyses. Since most of these analyses are not perceived as...
... which date naturalists appear to have had some idea of the proper preservation and mounting of natural history specimens; but Réaumur, more than a century and a quarter ago, published a treatise ... leather and of furs; but of the actual setting up of animals as specimens I can find no trace. I doubt, however, if we can carry taxidermy proper farther back than to about 150 years ago, at ... sum and substance of my interview is as follows: The nets, which are of two pieces, are each about twelve yards long by two-and -a- half yards wide, and are made with a three-quarter mesh of what...
... Seve-ral factors, such as the availability of more power-ful computers, an almost unlimited storage ca-pacity, the availability of large volumes of data in digital format, as well as the ... dialogue management and natural language generation. Springer. Stallard D (2000) Talk’n’travel: a conversational system for air travel planning. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Applied ... hand, contain all additional information/texts appearing in the scripts, which are typically of narrative nature and explain what is happening in the scene. Figure 1 depicts a browser snapshot...
... Penn Arabic Treebank:Building a Large-Scale Annotated Arabic Corpus. InNEMLAR Conference on Arabic Language Resourcesand Tools, pages 102–109, Cairo, Egypt.Yuval Marton, Nizar Habash, and ... Func-tional Approach. In Proceedings of the seventh In-ternational Conference on Language Resources andEvaluation (LREC), Valletta, Malta.Mohammed Attia. 2008. Handling Arabic Morpholog-ical and ... Societyfor Information Science and Technology, 55(3):189–213.Mohamed Altantawy, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, andIbrahim Saleh. 2010. Morphological Analysis andGeneration of Arabic Nouns: A Morphemic...
... relations like equative, e.g., findingplayer and coach on the Web suggests an equativerelation for player coach (and for coach player).As Table 3 shows, this is different for SAT ver-bal analogy, ... helpful.456ReferencesHiyan Alshawi and David Carter. 1994. Trainingand scaling preference functions for disambiguation.Computational Linguistics, 20(4):635–648.Ken Barker and Stan Szpakowicz. 1998. Semi-automaticrecognition ... Science and Engineering.Christiane Fellbaum, editor. 1998. WordNet: An Elec-tronic Lexical Database. MIT Press.Roxana Girju, Dan Moldovan, Marta Tatu, and DanielAntohe. 2005. On the semantics...
... e.g. took and began meet only attheir roots, so the LCA senses are act#0 and be#0.We also extracted temporal and causal word associ-ations from the Google N-gram corpus (Brants andFranz, 2006), ... achievingan F-measure of 49.0 for temporals and 52.4for causals. Analysis of these models sug-gests that additional data will improve perfor-mance, and that temporal information is cru-cial to causal ... existingcorpora are missing some crucial pieces for study-ing temporal-causal interactions. Our research aimsto fill these gaps by building acorpus of paralleltemporal and causal relations and exploring...
... datarepeatParse a new section of raw dataManually correct errors in the parser outputAdd the corrected data to the training setExtract a new grammar for the parseruntil All the data has been processedAlgorithm ... ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.Daniel Gildea. 2001. Corpus variation and parser perfor-mance. In Lillian Lee and Donna Harman, editors, Pro-ceedings of EMNLP, pages 167–202, Pittsburgh, PA.Charles ... can be rapidly induced from appropri-ate treebank material. However, treebank- andmachine learning-based grammatical resources re-flect the characteristics of the training data. Theygenerally...
... strict and lenient met-rics are also applied in annotations of relevance. 4.2 High agreement To see how the generated gold standards agree with the annotations of all annotators, we analyze ... gold standard; for the lenient metric, sentences with annotations agreed by at least two annotators are selected as the testing collection and the major-ity of annotations are treated as the ... of annotations are listed and two methods are introduced to evaluate the quality of the human-tagged opinion corpora. 3.1 Combinations of annotations Three major properties are annotated for...
... metadataand annotations. The annotation files areconverted to a tabular format using an eas-ily adaptable XSLT-based mechanism, andtheir consistency is verified in the process.Metadata files are ... order to generate tabular files(TSV) and a table-creation script.4. Create and populate metadata tables withindatabase.5. Adapt the XSLT stylesheet as needed for vari-ous table formats.5 Results: ... names or analyse folders. Moreover, the ad-vantage of creating IMDI files is that the metadatais compliant with a widely used standard accompa-nied by freely available tools such as the metadatabrowser....