We present an automatic method to disambiguate the senses of the near-synonyms in the entries of a dictionary of synonyms. We combine different indicators that take advantage of th...
FrameNet is a three-year NSF-supported project in corpus-based computational lexicography, now in its second year NSF IRI-9618838, Tools for Lexicon Building". The project...
Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe
Electronic conversations often seem less polite than spoken conversations. The usual explanation for this is that people who are not physically copresent become depersonalized and...
We describe an automated method to assess the expressiveness of children’s oral reading by measuring how well its prosodic contours correlate in pitch, intensity, pauses, and wor...
In a corpus of expert tutoring dialogue, conversation that is considered to be "off topic" (non-pedagogical) according to a previous coding scheme is explored for its va...