Simon Zwarts


2011

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The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection
Simon Zwarts | Mark Johnson
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2010

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Dialogue Reference in a Visual Domain
Jette Viethen | Simon Zwarts | Robert Dale | Markus Guhe
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

A central purpose of referring expressions is to distinguish intended referents from other entities that are in the context; but how is this context determined? This paper draws a distinction between discourse context ―other entities that have been mentioned in the dialogue― and visual context ―visually available objects near the intended referent. It explores how these two different aspects of context have an impact on subsequent reference in a dialogic situation where the speakers share both discourse and visual context. In addition we take into account the impact of the reference history ―forms of reference used previously in the discourse― on forming what have been called conceptual pacts. By comparing the output of different parameter settings in our model to a data set of human-produced referring expressions, we determine that an approach to subsequent reference based on conceptual pacts provides a better explanation of our data than previously proposed algorithmic approaches which compute a new distinguishing description for the intended referent every time it is mentioned.

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Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2010
Nitin Indurkhya | Simon Zwarts
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2010

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Repurposing Corpora for Speech Repair Detection: Two Experiments
Simon Zwarts | Mark Johnson | Robert Dale
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2010

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Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach
Simon Zwarts | Mark Johnson | Robert Dale
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010)

2008

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Morphosyntactic Target Language Matching in Statistical Machine Translation
Simon Zwarts | Mark Dras
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Choosing the Right Translation: A Syntactically Informed Classification Approach
Simon Zwarts | Mark Dras
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008)

2007

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Syntax-based word reordering in phrase-based statistical machine translation: why does it work?
Simon Zwarts | Mark Dras
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers

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Statistical Machine Translation of Australian Aboriginal Languages: Morphological Analysis with Languages of Differing Morphological Richness
Simon Zwarts | Mark Dras
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

2006

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This Phrase-Based SMT System is Out of Order: Generalised Word Reordering in Machine Translation
Simon Zwarts | Mark Dras
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006