c○2010 The Association for Computational Linguistics

c○2010 The Association for Computational Linguistics

ISBN : 978 - 1 - 61738 - 808 - 8 48 th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2010 ( ACL 2010 ) Uppsala , Sweden 11 - 16 July 2010

c○2010 The Association for Computational Linguistics

The CoNLL-2010 Shared Task was dedicated to the detection of uncertainty cues and their linguistic scope in natural language texts. The motivation behind this task was that distinguishing factual and uncertain information in texts is of essential importance in information extraction. This paper provides a general overview of the shared task, including the annotation protocols of the training an...

c○2010 The Association for Computational Linguistics

We present a first step towards a model of speech generation for incremental dialogue systems. The model allows a dialogue system to incrementally interpret spoken input, while simultaneously planning, realising and selfmonitoring the system response. The model has been implemented in a general dialogue system framework. Using this framework, we have implemented a specific application and teste...

Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment

Two of the mechanisms for creating natural transitions between adjacent sentences in a text, resulting in local coherence, involve discourse relations and switches of focus of attention between discourse entities. These two aspects of local coherence have been traditionally discussed and studied separately. But some empirical studies have given strong evidence for the necessity of understanding...