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NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Extending the METEOR Machine Translation Evaluation Metric to the Phrase Level
This paper presents METEOR-NEXT, an extended version of the METEOR metric designed to have high correlation with postediting measures of machine translation quality. We describe c...
Michael J. Denkowski, Alon Lavie
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Generalizing over Lexical Features: Selectional Preferences for Semantic Role Classification
This paper explores methods to alleviate the effect of lexical sparseness in the classification of verbal arguments. We show how automatically generated selectional preferences ar...
Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluís ...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Reducing SMT Rule Table with Monolingual Key Phrase
This paper presents an effective approach to discard most entries of the rule table for statistical machine translation. The rule table is filtered by monolingual key phrases, whi...
Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Yajuan Lü, Hao Yu, Qun...
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Question Detection in Spoken Conversations Using Textual Conversations
We investigate the use of textual Internet conversations for detecting questions in spoken conversations. We compare the text-trained model with models trained on manuallylabeled,...
Anna Margolis, Mari Ostendorf
ISIPTA
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Update on Generalized Information Theory
The purpose of this paper is to survey recent developments and trends in the area of generalized information theory (GIT) and to discuss some of the issues of current interest in ...
George J. Klir