ACL-08: HLT

46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Proceedings of the Demo Session

June 16, 2008 The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA


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Introduction

Welcome to the proceedings of the demo session. We received 21 submissions, 9 of which were selected for inclusion in the program after review by at least two members of the program committee.

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Chair: Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) Program Committee: Marine Carpuat (HKUST) Joyce Chai (Michigan State University) Trevor Cohn (University of Edinburgh) Damianos Karakos (Johns Hopkins University) Terry Koo (MIT) Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst) Don Metzler (Yahoo! Research) Andrew Rosenberg (Columbia University) Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo) Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Instiute of Technology)

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Table of Contents

Demonstration of a POMDP Voice Dialer Jason Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Generating Research Websites Using Summarisation Techniques Advaith Siddharthan and Ann Copestake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution Yannick Versley, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Massimo Poesio, Vladimir Eidelman, Alan Jern, Jason Smith, Xiaofeng Yang and Alessandro Moschitti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Demonstration of the UAM CorpusTool for Text and Image Annotation Mick O'Donnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Interactive ASR Error Correction for Touchscreen Devices David Huggins-Daines and Alexander I. Rudnicky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Yawat: Yet Another Word Alignment Tool Ulrich Germann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 SIDE: The Summarization Integrated Development Environment ´ Moonyoung Kang, Sourish Chaudhuri, Mahesh Joshi and Carolyn P. Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ModelTalker Voice Recorder--An Interface System for Recording a Corpus of Speech for Synthesis Debra Yarrington, John Gray, Chris Pennington, H. Timothy Bunnell, Allegra Cornaglia, Jason Lilley, Kyoko Nagao and James Polikoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The QuALiM Question Answering Demo: Supplementing Answers with Paragraphs drawn from Wikipedia Michael Kaisser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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