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2009
13 years 7 months ago
A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination
Recently confusion network decoding shows the best performance in combining outputs from multiple machine translation (MT) systems. However, overcoming different word orders prese...
Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Adaptation of Annotation Standards: Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging - A Case Study
Manually annotated corpora are valuable but scarce resources, yet for many annotation tasks such as treebanking and sequence labeling there exist multiple corpora with different a...
Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Heterogeneous Treebanks for Parsing
We address the issue of using heterogeneous treebanks for parsing by breaking it down into two sub-problems, converting grammar formalisms of the treebanks to the same one, and pa...
Zheng-Yu Niu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Variational Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
Statistical models in machine translation exhibit spurious ambiguity. That is, the probability of an output string is split among many distinct derivations (e.g., trees or segment...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur