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ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Sense-based Interpretation of Logical Metonymy Using a Statistical Method
The use of figurative language is ubiquitous in natural language texts and it is a serious bottleneck in automatic text understanding. We address the problem of interpretation of ...
Ekaterina Shutova
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Sentence diagram generation using dependency parsing
Dependency parsers show syntactic relations between words using a directed graph, but comparing dependency parsers is difficult because of differences in theoretical models. We de...
Elijah Mayfield
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Creating a Gold Standard for Sentence Clustering in Multi-Document Summarization
Sentence Clustering is often used as a first step in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) to find redundant information. All the same there is no gold standard available. This paper...
Johanna Geiss
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Part of Speech Tagger for Assamese Text
Assamese is a morphologically rich, agglutinative and relatively free word order Indic language. Although spoken by nearly 30 million people, very little computational linguistic ...
Navanath Saharia, Dhrubajyoti Das, Utpal Sharma, J...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Inference of CRFs for Large-Scale Natural Language Data
This paper presents an efficient inference algorithm of conditional random fields (CRFs) for large-scale data. Our key idea is to decompose the output label state into an active s...
Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin, Gary Geunbae Lee
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish
This paper presents the first stochastic finite-state morphological parser for Turkish. The non-probabilistic parser is a standard finite-state transducer implementation of two-le...
Hasim Sak, Tunga Güngör, Murat Saraclar
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Sub-Sentence Division for Tree-Based Machine Translation
Tree-based statistical machine translation models have made significant progress in recent years, especially when replacing 1-best trees with packed forests. However, as the parsi...
Hao Xiong, Wenwen Xu, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, Qun Liu
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Recently, there is a growing interest in working with tree-structured data in different applications and domains such as computational biology and natural language processing. Mor...
Yashar Mehdad
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Handling phrase reorderings for machine translation
We propose a distance phrase reordering model (DPR) for statistical machine translation (SMT), where the aim is to capture phrase reorderings using a structure learning framework....
Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sándor Szedm&aac...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora
In this paper, we study the problem of extracting technical paraphrases from a parallel software corpus, namely, a collection of duplicate bug reports. Paraphrase acquisition is a...
Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Lu Zhang, Hong...