Tracking Literary Reputation with Text Analysis Tools ∗ (2009)
Maite Taboada, Mary Ann Gillies, Bc Va S, Paul Mcfetridge, Robert Outtrim
We describe the initial stages of a project tracking the literary reputation of authors. The objective of our research is to extract information on the reputation of different authors, based on...
2006) Sentiment classification techniques for tracking literary reputation (2008)
Maite Taboada, Mary Ann Gillies, Paul Mcfetridge
The initial stages of a project tracking the literary reputation of authors are described. The critical reviews of six authors who either rose to fame or fell to obscurity between 1900 and 1950 will...
Prosodic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations (2008)
Gabriel Murray, Maite Taboada, Steve Renals
This paper investigates the usefulness of prosodic features in classifying rhetorical relations between utterances in meeting recordings. Five rhetorical relations of contrast, elaboration, summary,...
Deciding on Units of Analysis within Centering Theory ∗ (2008)
Maite Taboada, Loreley Hadic Zabala
Many efforts in corpora annotation start with segmenting discourse into units of analysis. In this paper, we present a method for deciding on segmentation units within Centering Theory (Grosz, Joshi,...
Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking * (2008)
Turn-taking is usually considered to follow a simple set of rules, enacted through a perhaps more complicated system of signals. The most significant aspect of the turn-taking process is that, in...
Appraisal Amplitude Affect Attitude (2008)
Callassign To Sametext, Linguistictheoryof Subjectivity, Maite Taboada
Classification of texts based on subjectivecontent(=sentiment)
Methods for Creating Semantic Orientation Dictionaries * (2008)
Maite Taboada, Caroline Anthony, Kimberly Voll
We describe and compare different methods for creating a dictionary of words with their corresponding semantic orientation (SO). We tested how well different dictionaries helped determine the SO of...
Prosodic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations (2008)
Gabriel Murray, Maite Taboada, Steve Renals
This paper investigates the usefulness of prosodic features in classifying rhetorical relations between utterances in meeting recordings. Five rhetorical relations of contrast, elaboration, summary,...
Reference, centers and transitions in spoken Spanish (2008)
The goal of this paper is to examine the relationship between Centering transitions (Grosz et al., 1995) and choice of referring expression. For that purpose, Centering analyses were carried out in...
Improving Translation through Contextual Information (2007)
Maite Taboada Carnegie, Maite Taboada
This paper proposes a two-layered model of dialogue structure for task-oriented dialogues that processes contextual information and disambiguates speech acts. The final goal is to improve translation...
Improving Translation through Contextual Information (2007)
This paper proposes a two-layered model of dialogue structure for task-oriented dialogues that processes contextual information and disambiguates speech acts. The final goal is to improve translation...
Expanding the domain of a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system. (2007)
Lavie, Alon, Levin, Lori, Zhan, Puming, Taboada, Maite, Gates, Donna, Lapata, Mirella, ...
Dialogue processing in a conversational speech translation system. (2007)
Lavie, Alon, Levin, Lori, Qu, Yan, Waibel, Alex, Gates, Donna, Gavalda, Marsal, ...
Abstract. Semantic orientation (SO) for texts is often determined on the basis of the positive or negative polarity, or sentiment, found in the text. Polarity is typically extracted using the...
Maite Taboada, Caroline Anthony, Julian Brooke, Katia Dilkina, Mary Ann Gillies, Paul Mcfetridge, ...
A movie review Ok let me get this out of the way: I did NOT like this movie. Borderline hated it. Now if you are only after positive reviews, then you might skip this, but if you are interested in...
Rhetorical Structure Theory: (2006)
Maite Taboada, William C. Mann, Looking Back, Moving Ahead, Maite Taboada, William C. Mann, ...
ABSTRACT Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s. It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas in...
Rhetorical Structure Theory: looking back and moving ahead (2006)
Maite Taboada, William C. Mann
Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s. It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas in discourse...
W.C.: Applications of rhetorical structure theory (2006)
Maite Taboada, William C. Mann
Rhetorical Structure Theory is a theory of text organization that has led to areas of application beyond discourse analysis and text generation, its original goals. In this paper, we review the most...
Centering Theory in Spanish: Coding Manual * (2006)
Loreley Hadic Zabala, Maite Taboada
This is a manual for coding Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995) in Spanish. The manual is still under revision. The coding is being done on two sets of corpora: • ISL corpus. A set of...
Discourse markers as signals (or not) of rhetorical relations (2005)
Maite Taboada, Rhetorical Relations
Ever since the formulation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson, researchers have debated about what is the “right ” number of relations. The original 1988 paper contained 24...
Discourse markers as signals (or not) of rhetorical relations (2005)
Ever since the formulation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson, researchers have debated about what is the ‘right ’ number of relations. One proposal is based on the...
Analyzing appraisal automatically (2004)
We present a method for classifying texts automatically, based on their subjective content. We apply a standard method for calculating semantic orientation (Turney 2002), and expand it by giving more...
Collaborating through Talk: The Interactive Construction of TaskOriented Dialogue (2001)
The present thesis is a study of connexity and coherence at all levels in conversation. Both interturn and intra-turn relationships are studied in a bilingual English-Spanish corpus of task-oriented...
Expanding the domain of a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system. (1997)
Lavie, Alon, Levin, Lori, Zhan, Puming, Taboada, Maite, Gates, Donna, Lapata, Mirella, ...
Dialogue processing in a conversational speech translation system. (1997)
Lavie, Alon, Levin, Lori, Qu, Yan, Waibel, Alex, Gates, Donna, Gavalda, Marsal, ...
Expanding the Domain of a Multi-lingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System (1997)
Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Puming Zhan, Maite Taboada, Donna Gates, Mirella Lapata, ...
JANUS is a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate sponta-neous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary...
Expanding the Domain of a Multi-lingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System (1997)
Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Puming Zhan, Maite Taboada, Donna Gates, Mirella Lapata, ...
JANUS is a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate spontaneous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary...
Discourse Information for Disambiguation: The Phoenix Approach in JANUS (1997)
Maite Taboada, Lori Levin, Alex Waibel, Nancy Green, Alon Lavie
this paper, I will use the convention of assigning female gender to the speaker or initiator of the conversation, and male to the hearer
Dialogue Processing in a Conversational Speech Translation System (1996)
Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldà, ...
Attempts at discourse processing of spontaneously spoken dialogue face several difficulties: multiple hypotheses that result from the parser’s attempts to make sense of the output from the speech...
Dialogue Processing in a Conversational Speech Translation System (1996)
Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, ...
Attempts at discourse processing of spontaneously spoken dialogue face several difficulties: multiple hypotheses that result from the parser's attempts to make sense of the output from the...
Contextual Information for Disambiguation in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System (1996)
this paper I will explore those three strata of discourse in order to gain on understanding of how speakers mean in a given situation. This work is part of the JANUS multi-lingual speech-to-speech...
Dialogue Processing in a Conversational Speech Translation System
Alon Lavie Lori, Lori Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, ...
Attempts at discourse processing of spontaneously spoken dialogue face several difficulties: multiple hypotheses that result from the parser's attempts to make sense of the output from the...
Dialogue Processing in a Conversational Speech Translation System
Alon Lavie Lori, Lori Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, ...
Attempts at discourse processing of spontaneously spoken dialogue face several difficulties: multiple hypotheses that result from the parser's attempts to make sense of the output from the...
Dialogue Processing in a Conversational Speech Translation System
Alon Lavie Lori, Lori Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldà, ...
Attempts at discourse processing of spontaneously spoken dialogue face several difficulties: multiple hypotheses that result from the parser's attempts to make sense of the output from the...