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ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank
Articles in the Penn TreeBank were identified as being reviews, summaries, letters to the editor, news reportage, corrections, wit and short verse, or quarterly profit reports. Al...
Bonnie L. Webber
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Dialogue Segmentation with Large Numbers of Volunteer Internet Annotators
This paper shows the results of an experiment in dialogue segmentation. In this experiment, segmentation was done on a level of analysis similar to adjacency pairs. The method of ...
T. Daniel Midgley
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Syntax-Free Approach to Japanese Sentence Compression
Conventional sentence compression methods employ a syntactic parser to compress a sentence without changing its meaning. However, the reference compressions made by humans do not ...
Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Collaborative Decoding: Partial Hypothesis Re-ranking Using Translation Consensus between Decoders
This paper presents collaborative decoding (co-decoding), a new method to improve machine translation accuracy by leveraging translation consensus between multiple machine transla...
Mu Li, Nan Duan, Dongdong Zhang, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Z...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Phrase Clustering for Discriminative Learning
We present a simple and scalable algorithm for clustering tens of millions of phrases and use the resulting clusters as features in discriminative classifiers. To demonstrate the ...
Dekang Lin, Xiaoyun Wu
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Adaptation of Annotation Standards: Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging - A Case Study
Manually annotated corpora are valuable but scarce resources, yet for many annotation tasks such as treebanking and sequence labeling there exist multiple corpora with different a...
Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment
In this paper we present a confidence measure for word alignment based on the posterior probability of alignment links. We introduce sentence alignment confidence measure and alig...
Fei Huang
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination
Recently confusion network decoding shows the best performance in combining outputs from multiple machine translation (MT) systems. However, overcoming different word orders prese...
Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Dependency Grammar Induction via Bitext Projection Constraints
Kuzman Ganchev, Jennifer Gillenwater, Ben Taskar