Abstract. A speech act is a linguistic action intended by a speaker. It is important to analyze the speech act for the dialogue understanding system because the speech act of an ut...
This paper reports on a study of semantic role tagging in Chinese, in the absence of a parser. We investigated the effect of using only lexical information in statistical training;...
We present a preliminary study of several parser adaptation es evaluated on the GENIA corpus of MEDLINE abstracts [1,2]. We begin by observing that the Penn Treebank (PTB) is lexic...
This paper reports on a study involving the automatic extraction of Chinese legal terms. We used a word segmented corpus of Chinese court judgments to extract salient legal expres...
We present in this paper a new learning problem called learning distributions from experts. In the case we study the experts are stochastic deterministic finite automata (sdfa). W...