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2012
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Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes
Bayesian approaches have been shown to reduce the amount of overfitting that occurs when running the EM algorithm, by placing prior probabilities on the model parameters. We appl...
Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2012
12 years 8 days ago
How Are Spelling Errors Generated and Corrected? A Study of Corrected and Uncorrected Spelling Errors Using Keystroke Logs
This paper presents a comparative study of spelling errors that are corrected as you type, vs. those that remain uncorrected. First, we generate naturally occurring online error c...
Yukino Baba, Hisami Suzuki
ACL
2012
12 years 8 days ago
Coreference Semantics from Web Features
To address semantic ambiguities in coreference resolution, we use Web n-gram features that capture a range of world knowledge in a diffuse but robust way. Specifically, we exploi...
Mohit Bansal, Dan Klein
ACL
2012
12 years 8 days ago
A Computational Approach to the Automation of Creative Naming
In this paper, we propose a computational approach to generate neologisms consisting of homophonic puns and metaphors based on the category of the service to be named and the prop...
Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava
ACL
2012
12 years 8 days ago
Specifying Viewpoint and Information Need with Affective Metaphors: A System Demonstration of the Metaphor-Magnet Web App/Servic
Metaphors pervade our language because they are elastic enough to allow a speaker to express an affective viewpoint on a topic without committing to a specific meaning. This balan...
Tony Veale, Guofu Li