ToC: Natural Language Engineering, Volume 14 - Issue 03 - July 2008

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Natural Language Engineering
Volume 14 - Issue 03 - July 2008
http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_NLE

Robust parsing and spoken negotiative dialogue with databases
JOHAN BOYE
MATS WIR=C9N

Bootstrapping spoken dialogue systems by exploiting reusable libraries
GIUSEPPE DI FABBRIZIO
GOKHAN TUR
DILEK HAKKANI-T=DCR
MAZIN GILBERT
BERNARD RENGER
DAVID GIBBON
ZHU LIU
BEHZAD SHAHRARAY

A general feature space for automatic verb classification
ERIC JOANIS
SUZANNE STEVENSON
DAVID JAMES

Using automatically labelled examples to classify rhetorical relations: an
assessment
CAROLINE SPORLEDER
ALEX LASCARIDES

A new PPM variant for Chinese text compression
PEILIANG WU
W. J. TEAHAN


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Natural Language Engineering<br>
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Robust parsing and spoken negotiative dialogue with databases<br>
JOHAN BOYE<br>
MATS WIR=C9N<br>
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Bootstrapping spoken dialogue systems by exploiting reusable libraries<br>
GIUSEPPE DI FABBRIZIO<br>
GOKHAN TUR<br>
DILEK HAKKANI-T=DCR<br>
MAZIN GILBERT<br>
BERNARD RENGER<br>
DAVID GIBBON<br>
ZHU LIU<br>
BEHZAD SHAHRARAY<br>
<br>
A general feature space for automatic verb classification<br>
ERIC JOANIS<br>
SUZANNE STEVENSON<br>
DAVID JAMES<br>
<br>
Using automatically labelled examples to classify rhetorical relations: an<=
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assessment<br>
CAROLINE SPORLEDER<br>
ALEX LASCARIDES<br>
<br>
A new PPM variant for Chinese text compression<br>
PEILIANG WU<br>
W. J. TEAHAN<br>
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