This paper presents the system developed by Elhuyar for the TweetNorm evaluation campaign which consists of normalizing Spanish tweets to standard language. The normalization covers only the correction of certain Out Of Vocabulary (OOV) words, previously identified by the organizers. The developed system follows a two step strategy. First, candidates for each OOV word are generated by means of ...

Natural conversations often involve disfluencies in the form of revisions, repetitions, interjections, filled pauses and such. This paper focuses on word/phrase repetitions and revisions that are lexically well formed. These are generally captured by an ASR but pose problems to downstream processing such as spoken language translation (SLT). We describe a system to identify such word level disf...

Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcastic statements. It is also possible that lexical factors play a role, although this possibility has not been investigated previously. College students were asked to read excerpts from published works that originally contained the phrase said sarcastically, although the word sarcastically was deleted....

In this paper we propose a set of stylistic markers for automatically attributing authorship to micro-blogging messages. The proposed markers include highly personal and idiosyncratic editing options, such as ‘emoticons’, interjections, punctuation, abbreviations and other low-level features. We evaluate the ability of these features to help discriminate the authorship of Twitter messages among...

Speakers and listeners make use of a variety of pragmatic factors to produce and identify sarcastic statements. It is also possible that lexical factors play a role, although this possibility has not been investigated previously. College students were asked to read excerpts from published works that originally contained the phrase said sarcastically, although the word sarcastically was deleted....

A large body of research shows that vocabulary does not develop independently of grammar, representing a better predictor of the grammatical complexity of toddlers' utterances than age. This study examines for the first time the characteristics of vocabulary and grammar development in Slovenian-speaking infants and toddlers using the Slovenian adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Dev...

Most current work on spoken human-computer interaction has so far concentrated on interactions between a single user and a dialogue system. The advent of ideas of the computer or dialogue system as a conversational partner in a group of humans, for example within the CHIL-project and elsewhere (e.g. Kirchhoff & Ostendorf, 2003), introduces new requirements on the capabilities of the dialogue sy...