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ACL
2009
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The Contribution of Linguistic Features to Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation
A number of approaches to Automatic MT Evaluation based on deep linguistic knowledge have been suggested. However, n-gram based metrics are still today the dominant approach. The ...
Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez,...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Revisiting Pivot Language Approach for Machine Translation
This paper revisits the pivot language approach for machine translation. First, we investigate three different methods for pivot translation. Then we employ a hybrid method combin...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
What lies beneath: Semantic and syntactic analysis of manually reconstructed spontaneous speech
Spontaneously produced speech text often includes disfluencies which make it difficult to analyze underlying structure. Successful reconstruction of this text would transform thes...
Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek, Robert Frank
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Application-driven Statistical Paraphrase Generation
Paraphrase generation (PG) is important in plenty of NLP applications. However, the research of PG is far from enough. In this paper, we propose a novel method for statistical par...
Shiqi Zhao, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms
This paper addresses the task of handling unknown terms in SMT. We propose using source-language monolingual models and resources to paraphrase the source text prior to translatio...
Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Dependency Based Chinese Sentence Realization
This paper describes log-linear models for a general-purpose sentence realizer based on dependency structures. Unlike traditional realizers using grammar rules, our method realize...
Wei He, Haifeng Wang, Yuqing Guo, Ting Liu
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages
The vast majority of work on word senses has relied on predefined sense inventories and an annotation schema where each word instance is tagged with the best fitting sense. This p...
Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy, Nicholas Gaylord
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
K-Best A* Parsing
A parsing makes 1-best search efficient by suppressing unlikely 1-best items. Existing kbest extraction methods can efficiently search for top derivations, but only after an exhau...
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants
We describe an unsupervised system for learning narrative schemas, coherent sequences or sets of events (arrested(POLICE,SUSPECT), convicted( JUDGE, SUSPECT)) whose arguments are ...
Nathanael Chambers, Dan Jurafsky