ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of W06-1303
Paper Title:
BUILDING EFFECTIVE QUESTION ANSWERING CHARACTERS
BUILDING EFFECTIVE QUESTION ANSWERING CHARACTERS
Authors: Anton Leuski and Ronakkumar Patel and David Traum and Brandon Kennedy
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- answer retrieval
- answer selection
- art text classification
- automatic answer selection
- automatic question answering
- automatic speech recognition
- automatic system
- classification
- classification method
- classification techniques
- classifier
- clm answer selection
- computational linguistics
- computing
- conversation management
- cross-language information retrieval
- cross-lingual information retrieval
- cross-validation
- cutoff
- dialog management
- dialog system
- estimator
- indexing
- information retrieval
- kernel
- language model retrieval
- language model smoothing
- language modeling
- language understanding
- language understanding system
- latent dirichlet allocation
- latent semantic indexing
- learning
- likelihood estimator
- linear kernel
- linear kernel function
- matching
- matching algorithm
- maximum likelihood
- maximum likelihood estimator
- measuring
- model retrieval
- model smoothing
- modeling
- paraphrasing
- query language
- question answering
- question-answer matching
- question-answering
- ranking
- recognition
- recognition engine
- recognition technology
- recognizer
- selection process
- selection technique
- semantic indexing
- sgt blackwell
- smoothing
- speech recognition
- speech recognition engine
- speech recognition module
- speech recognition technology
- spoken dialog
- spoken dialog system
- spoken language interaction
- statistical language modeling
- statistical speech recognition
- support vector machines
- system integration
- term weighting
- terminology
- text classification
- text retrieval
- weighting
Other assigned terms:
- 10-fold cross-validation
- a spoken dialog
- acoustic models
- ambiguity
- approach
- asr output
- association for computational linguistics
- candidate answer
- case
- characters
- classification accuracy
- classification performance
- classification task
- community
- concept
- conditional distribution
- confidence score
- context dependency
- context information
- conversation
- conversational speech
- data set
- data sets
- device
- dialog
- dirichlet allocation
- discourse
- distribution
- document
- domain knowledge
- entropy
- error rate
- estimation
- fact
- finite set
- hindi
- indirect speech acts
- information need
- input text
- joint probability
- kernel function
- knowledge
- kullback-leibler divergence
- language model
- language models
- latent semantic
- likelihood
- linguistics
- mapping
- meaning
- measure
- measures
- message
- method
- natural language
- opinions
- paragraphs
- parameter values
- precision
- priori
- probabilities
- probability
- probability distribution
- probability distributions
- process
- queries
- query
- question-answer pair
- recognition errors
- recognition module
- representations
- schema
- semantic
- sentences
- speech acts
- speech recognition errors
- spoken input
- spoken language
- statistic
- statistical significance
- statistics
- support vector
- surface form
- technique
- technology
- term
- text
- text classification task
- theorem
- topics
- training
- training data
- training set
- transcriptions
- underspecification
- understanding
- unigram
- user
- vocabulary
- weighting scheme
- word
- word error rate
- words
