Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology. Machine Learning and Big Data: Second International Workshop, Fetlt 2016, Seville, Spain, November

ISBN-13: 9783319693644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 199 str.

Jose F. Quesada; Martin Mateos Francisco-Jesus; Teresa Lopez Soto

Opis

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology, FETLT 2016, which took place in Seville, Spain, in November 2016. The 10 full papers and 5 position papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions.

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Position Papers.- With or without Meaning? Hype Cycles in Language Technology and what We Can Learn from Them.- Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe - LT Observatory.- The Rise of the Conversational Interface: A new Kid on the Block.- Spanish Language Technologies Plan.- Improving Collaboration between the European Language Technology Industry & Research: A new Framework for Supply & Demand.- Contributed Papers.- LifeLine dialogues with Roberta.- An affective utility model of user motivation for counselling dialogue systems.- Exploring flexibility in natural language generation throughout discursive analysis of new textual genres.- Bootstrapping technique + embeddings = Emotional corpus annotated automatically.- Rapid construction of a web-enabled medical speech to sign language translator using recorded video.- Incorporating syllable phonotactics to improve grapheme to phoneme translation.- Hybrid conceptual and statistical measure for semantic textual similarity evaluation.- General representation model for text similarity.- Extending feature decay algorithms using alignment entropy.- Towards a topic discovery and tracking system with application to news items.