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ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Jointly Identifying Temporal Relations with Markov Logic
Recent work on temporal relation identification has focused on three types of relations between events: temporal relations between an event and a time expression, between a pair o...
Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Sebastian Riedel, Masayuki As...
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification
This paper introduces a new algorithm to parse discourse within the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Our method is based on recent advances in the field of statisti...
David duVerle, Helmut Prendinger
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence-Labeling
Supervised sequence-labeling systems in natural language processing often suffer from data sparsity because they use word types as features in their prediction tasks. Consequently...
Fei Huang, Alexander Yates
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
A Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
Correct stress placement is important in text-to-speech systems, in terms of both the overall accuracy and the naturalness of pronunciation. In this paper, we formulate stress ass...
Qing Dou, Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn, G...
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Minimum Error Rate Training and Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Translation Hypergraphs and Lattices
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) and Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding are used in most current state-of-theart Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems. The algorithms wer...
Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer, Fran...