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2009
13 years 7 months ago
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
In this paper, we analyze the impact of different automatic annotation methods on the performance of supervised approaches to the complex question answering problem (defined in th...
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, Shafiq R. Joty
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Revisiting Pivot Language Approach for Machine Translation
This paper revisits the pivot language approach for machine translation. First, we investigate three different methods for pivot translation. Then we employ a hybrid method combin...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Employing Topic Models for Pattern-based Semantic Class Discovery
A semantic class is a collection of items (words or phrases) which have semantically peer or sibling relationship. This paper studies the employment of topic models to automatical...
Huibin Zhang, Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong We...
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Efficient Minimum Error Rate Training and Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Translation Hypergraphs and Lattices
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) and Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding are used in most current state-of-theart Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems. The algorithms wer...
Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer, Fran...
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation as a Traveling Salesman Problem
An efficient decoding algorithm is a crucial element of any statistical machine translation system. Some researchers have noted certain similarities between SMT decoding and the f...
Mikhail Zaslavskiy, Marc Dymetman, Nicola Cancedda