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ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Robust Approach to Abbreviating Terms: A Discriminative Latent Variable Model with Global Information
The present paper describes a robust approach for abbreviating terms. First, in order to incorporate non-local information into abbreviation generation tasks, we present both impl...
Xu Sun, Naoaki Okazaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT
We report in this paper our work on accurately generating case markers and suffixes in English-to-Hindi SMT. Hindi is a relatively free word-order language, and makes use of a com...
Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan, Hansraj Choudhary, Avi...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System
We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study in which na
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois Knoll
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Distant supervision for relation extraction without labeled data
Modern models of relation extraction for tasks like ACE are based on supervised learning of relations from small hand-labeled corpora. We investigate an alternative paradigm that ...
Mike Mintz, Steven Bills, Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafs...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference
Can we automatically compose a large set of Wiktionaries and translation dictionaries to yield a massive, multilingual dictionary whose coverage is substantially greater than that...
Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S....
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting Lexical Reference Rules from Wikipedia
This paper describes the extraction from Wikipedia of lexical reference rules, identifying references to term meanings triggered by other terms. We present extraction methods gear...
Eyal Shnarch, Libby Barak, Ido Dagan
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Argument Identification for Semantic Role Labeling
The task of Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is often divided into two sub-tasks: verb argument identification, and argument classification. Current SRL algorithms show lower results ...
Omri Abend, Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Minimum Error Rate Training and Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Translation Hypergraphs and Lattices
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) and Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding are used in most current state-of-theart Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems. The algorithms wer...
Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer, Fran...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Joint Decoding with Multiple Translation Models
Current SMT systems usually decode with single translation models and cannot benefit from the strengths of other models in decoding phase. We instead propose joint decoding, a met...
Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Yang Feng, Qun Liu
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
Correct stress placement is important in text-to-speech systems, in terms of both the overall accuracy and the naturalness of pronunciation. In this paper, we formulate stress ass...
Qing Dou, Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn, G...