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NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
In statistical machine translation, the currently best performing systems are based in some way on phrases or word groups. We describe the baseline phrase-based translation system...
Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding for statistical machine translation. This statistical approach aims to minimize expected loss of translation errors under loss functio...
Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution
We present a coreference resolver called BABAR that uses contextual role knowledge to evaluate possible antecedents for an anaphor. BABAR uses information extraction patterns to i...
David L. Bean, Ellen Riloff
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training
We present a technique for augmenting annotated training data with hierarchical word clusters that are automatically derived from a large unannotated corpus. Cluster membership is...
Scott Miller, Jethran Guinness, Alex Zamanian
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
A Salience-Based Approach to Gesture-Speech Alignment
One of the first steps towards understanding natural multimodal language is aligning gesture and speech, so that the appropriate gestures ground referential pronouns in the speech...
Jacob Eisenstein, Chris Mario Christoudias