... FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with features
for dialogue act classification
Riccardo Serafin
CEFRIEL
Via Fucini 2
20133 Milano, ... (Kintsch,
2001). We will show that for our task, dialogue
act classification, syntactic features do not help, but
most dialogue related features do. Surprisingly, one
dialogue related feature that ... Illinois
Chicago, IL 6...
... paragraphs, using a
system of semantic analysis programmed in Q32 LISP 1.5. The system of
semantic analysis comprises dictionary codings for the text words, coded
forms of permitted message, ... implication for a computable system of analysis is
that it should contain some facility for dealing with this
situation. As Bolinger puts it, "A semantic theory must
acco...
... terms “mosquito” (for question 2) and “form”
(for question 3), but only their inflected forms
“mosquitoes” and “formed”.
6 Conclusion and Future Work
We have presented three datasets for training sta-
tistical ... of
tolerance for inexact or partial answers:
• MAP
1
, R-Prec
1
: exact answer (1)
• MAP
1,5
, R-Prec
1,5
: exact answer (1) or par-
tial answer (5)
• MAP
1,4,5
, R-Prec
1,4,5...
... directly with
the named semantic- based transfer approach.
Third, we compare the two approaches with
each other, and with co-description and restric-
tion operator based approaches.
2 Syntactic ...
encoding of information essential to steer trans-
fer.
Of course, semantics does not come for free nor
does it always blend as seamlessly with syntac-
tic representations as on...
... USA
{nschneid@cs.,behrang@,ko@cs.,nasmith@cs.}cmu.edu
Abstract
“Lightweight” semantic annotation of text
calls for a simple representation, ideally with-
out requiring a semantic lexicon to achieve
good coverage ... require prohibitive expertise and ef-
fort to apply.
2
We therefore turn to supersense tags
(SSTs), 40 coarse lexical semantic classes (25 for
nouns, 15 for verbs) o...
... all lemmata, POS for POS
information, and PP for POS and punctuation in-
formation.
In the CL-experiments, we did not control for
the potential contribution of punctuation features
to the ... The low average performance of IBL
is due to bad results for k = 1; for higher k, IBL
performs as well as LVQ. Overall, performance de-
creases with increasing number of features....
... document actually says. For instance, the facets
for the query ‘asthma’ in the faceted search engine
Yippy include the concepts allergy and children, but
do not specify what are the exact relations ... procedure to a
fragment of the entailment graph for ‘asthma’ (i.e.,
for propositional templates with ‘asthma’ as one of
the arguments).
Taxonomy for arguments The optional concept
t...
... morphemes’
forms and their co-occurrence restrictions, but per-
haps not their morphosyntactic features. The user
can then, post-customization, augment these rules
with the missing information.
2.1.2 ... customization system are
compatible in format and semantic representations
with existing DELPH-IN tools, including software
for grammar development and for applications in-
cluding...
... for computing
syntactic complexity features, we used a combina-
tion of the Stanford Parser and Tregex for compu-
ting both clause- and sentence-based features as
well as parse-tree-based features, ... to extract these 13 CB features from
parsing results where the parser is provided with
one sentence at a time. By applying the same selec-
tion criteria as before, except for...
... concepts, while not of great
value for access to segments of video, may be
important for organizing other concepts and for
browsing the hierarchy. These factors must be
balanced in developing ...
{gcraigm,bdorr,jimmylin}@umd.edu
Jan Hajič
Pavel Pecina
Institute for Formal and Applied Linguistics
Charles University
{hajic,pecina}@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Abstract
Thesauri...