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LREC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Holy Moses! Leveraging Existing Tools and Resources for Entity Translation
Recently, there has been an emphasis on creating shared resources for natural language processing applications. This has resulted in the development of high-quality tools and data...
Jean Tavernier, Rosa Cowan, Michelle Vanni
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences
We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framewo...
Lucia Specia
ACL
2008
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Measure Word Generation for English-Chinese SMT Systems
Measure words in Chinese are used to indicate the count of nouns. Conventional statistical machine translation (SMT) systems do not perform well on measure word generation due to ...
Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Nan Duan, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Z...
EMNLP
2007
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What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
ACL
1997
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Fertility Models for Statistical Natural Language Understanding
Several recent efforts in statistical natural language understanding (NLU) have focused on generating clumps of English words from semantic meaning concepts (Miller et al., 1995; ...
Stephen Della Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, ...