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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Generating Expository Dialogue from Monologue: Motivation, Corpus and Preliminary Rules
Generating expository dialogue from monologue is a task that poses an interesting and rewarding challenge for Natural Language Processing. This short paper has three aims: firstly...
Paul Piwek, Svetlana Stoyanchev
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model
Coreference resolution is governed by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a generative, model-based approach in which each of these factors is modularly enc...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Phrase-Based Translation with Prototypes of Short Phrases
We investigate methods of generating additional bilingual phrase pairs for a phrasebased decoder by translating short sequences of source text. Because our translation task is mor...
Frank Liberato, Behrang Mohit, Rebecca Hwa
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
Most work on language acquisition treats word segmentation--the identification of linguistic segments from continuous speech-and word learning--the mapping of those segments to me...
Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Michael C. Frank
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays
We show how the Barzilay and Lapata entitybased coherence algorithm (2008) can be applied to a new, noisy data domain
Jill Burstein, Joel R. Tetreault, Slava Andreyev
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment
The quality of a statistical machine translation (SMT) system is heavily dependent upon the amount of parallel sentences used in training. In recent years, there have been several...
Jason R. Smith, Chris Quirk, Kristina Toutanova
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment
Producing a fluent ordering for a set of prenominal modifiers in a noun phrase (NP) is a problematic task for natural language generation and machine translation systems. We prese...
Aaron Dunlop, Margaret Mitchell, Brian Roark
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition
In this paper, we describe an approach based on off-the-shelf parsers and semantic resources for the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) challenge that can be generally applied t...
Yashar Mehdad, Alessandro Moschitti, Fabio Massimo...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Using Mostly Native Data to Correct Errors in Learners' Writing
We present results from a range of experiments on article and preposition error correction for non-native speakers of English. We first compare a language model and errorspecific ...
Michael Gamon