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EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Translation via Targeted Paraphrasing
Targeted paraphrasing is a new approach to the problem of obtaining cost-effective, reasonable quality translation that makes use of simple and inexpensive human computations by m...
Philip Resnik, Olivia Buzek, Chang Hu, Yakov Kronr...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Latent-Descriptor Clustering for Unsupervised POS Induction
We present a novel approach to distributionalonly, fully unsupervised, POS tagging, based on an adaptation of the EM algorithm for the estimation of a Gaussian mixture. In this ap...
Michael Lamar, Yariv Maron, Elie Bienenstock
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
On Dual Decomposition and Linear Programming Relaxations for Natural Language Processing
This paper introduces dual decomposition as a framework for deriving inference algorithms for NLP problems. The approach relies on standard dynamic-programming algorithms as oracl...
Alexander M. Rush, David Sontag, Michael Collins, ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
The rapid growth of geotagged social media raises new computational possibilities for investigating geographic linguistic variation. In this paper, we present a multi-level genera...
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith,...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Enhancing Domain Portability of Chinese Segmentation Model Using Chi-Square Statistics and Bootstrapping
Almost all Chinese language processing tasks involve word segmentation of the language input as their first steps, thus robust and reliable segmentation techniques are always requ...
Baobao Chang, Dongxu Han