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ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model
This paper proposes a novel method that exploits multiple resources to improve statistical machine translation (SMT) based paraphrasing. In detail, a phrasal paraphrase table and ...
Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu, Sheng ...
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking
Current re-ranking algorithms for machine translation rely on log-linear models, which have the potential problem of underfitting the training data. We present BoostedMERT, a nove...
Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Normalizing SMS: are Two Metaphors Better than One ?
Electronic written texts used in computermediated interactions (e-mails, blogs, chats, etc) present major deviations from the norm of the language. This paper presents an comparat...
Catherine Kobus, François Yvon, Géra...
COLING
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Generation of Parallel Treebanks
The need for syntactically annotated data for use in natural language processing has increased dramatically in recent years. This is true especially for parallel treebanks, of whi...
Ventsislav Zhechev, Andy Way