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NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Factored Language Models and Generalized Parallel Backoff
We introduce factored language models (FLMs) and generalized parallel backoff (GPB). An FLM represents words as bundles of features (e.g., morphological classes, stems, data-drive...
Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One
Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Pra...
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines
In this paper, the automatic labeling of semantic roles in a sentence is considered as a chunking task. We define a semantic chunk as the sequence of words that fills a semantic...
Kadri Hacioglu, Wayne Ward
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Statistical Phrase-Based Translation
We propose a new phrase-based translation model and decoding algorithm that enables us to evaluate and compare several, previously proposed phrase-based translation models. Within...
Philipp Koehn, Franz Josef Och, Daniel Marcu
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains
This paper investigates adapting a lexicalized probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) to a novel domain, using maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation. The MAP framework is gener...
Brian Roark, Michiel Bacchiani