Steven Gillis


2015

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Towards a Model of Prediction-based Syntactic Category Acquisition: First Steps with Word Embeddings
Robert Grimm | Giovanni Cassani | Walter Daelemans | Steven Gillis
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning

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Which distributional cues help the most? Unsupervised contexts selection for lexical category acquisition
Giovanni Cassani | Robert Grimm | Walter Daelemans | Steven Gillis
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning

2006

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Regional Bias in the Broad Phonetic Transcriptions of the Spoken Dutch Corpus
Evie Coussé | Steven Gillis
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

In this paper, we assess an aspect of the quality of the broad phonetic transcriptions in the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN). The corpus contains speech from native speakers of Dutch originating from The Netherlands and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. The phonetic transcriptions were made by transcribers from both regions. In previous research, we have identified regional differences in the transcribers' behaviour. In this paper, we explore the precise sources of the regional bias in the CGN transcriptions and we evaluate its impact on the phonetic transcriptions. More specifically, (1) the regional bias in the canonical transcriptions that served as the basis for the verification task of the transcribers is critically analysed, and (2) we verify in an experiment the regional bias introduced by the transcribers themselves. The possible effects of this inherent regional bias in the CGN transcriptions on subsequent linguistic analyses are briefly discussed.

2004

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The Influence of the Labeller’s Regional Background on Phonetic Transcriptions: Implications for the Evaluation of Spoken Language Resources
Evie Coussé | Steven Gillis | Hanne Kloots | Marc Swerts
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2000

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A Rule Induction Approach to Modeling Regional Pronunciation Variation
Veronique Hoste | Steven Gillis | Walter Daelemans
COLING 2000 Volume 1: The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1996

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MBT: A Memory-Based Part of Speech Tagger-Generator
Walter Daelemans | Jakub Zavrel | Peter Berck | Steven Gillis
Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora

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Unsupervised Discovery of Phonological Categories through Supervised Learning of Morphological Rules
Walter Daelemans | Peter Berck | Steven Gillis
COLING 1996 Volume 1: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1994

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The Acquisition of Stress: A Data-Oriented Approach
Walter Daelemans | Steven Gillis | Gert Durieux
Computational Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 3, September 1994