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ACL
2010
15 years 2 months ago
Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin Verbs
We present a system that automatically induces Selectional Preferences (SPs) for Latin verbs from two treebanks by using Latin WordNet. Our method overcomes some of the problems c...
Barbara McGillivray
NAACL
2010
15 years 2 months ago
Task-based Evaluation of Multiword Expressions: a Pilot Study in Statistical Machine Translation
We conduct a pilot study for task-oriented evaluation of Multiword Expression (MWE) in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We propose two different integration strategies for M...
Marine Carpuat, Mona Diab
NAACL
2010
15 years 2 months ago
Information Content Measures of Semantic Similarity Perform Better Without Sense-Tagged Text
This paper presents an empirical comparison of similarity measures for pairs of concepts based on Information Content. It shows that using modest amounts of untagged text to deriv...
Ted Pedersen
NAACL
2010
15 years 2 months ago
An MDL-based approach to extracting subword units for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
We address a key problem in grapheme-tophoneme conversion: the ambiguity in mapping grapheme units to phonemes. Rather than using single letters and phonemes as units, we propose ...
Sravana Reddy, John A. Goldsmith
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NAACL
2010
15 years 2 months ago
Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Detect Figurative Language in Context
We present a Gaussian Mixture model for detecting different types of figurative language in context. We show that this model performs well when the parameters are estimated in an ...
Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder