Detecting structural metadata with decision trees and transformation-based learning

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 137-144

  Kim, Joungbum ^a   Schwarm, Sarah E ^b   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical Engineering ^*

^b University of Washington   (United States)

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FORESTRY;

DECISION-TREE MODEL; DISFLUENCIES; INFORMATION SOURCES; PROSODICS; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL METADATA; TRANSFORMATION-BASED LEARNING; TREE-BASED;

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EID: 33646819463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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