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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Model Combination for Machine Translation
Machine translation benefits from two types of decoding techniques: consensus decoding over multiple hypotheses under a single model and system combination over hypotheses from di...
John DeNero, Shankar Kumar, Ciprian Chelba, Franz ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Time-Efficient Creation of an Accurate Sentence Fusion Corpus
Sentence fusion enables summarization and question-answering systems to produce output by combining fully formed phrases from different sentences. Yet there is little data that ca...
Kathleen McKeown, Sara Rosenthal, Kapil Thadani, C...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Visual Information in Semantic Representation
The question of how meaning might be acquired by young children and represented by adult speakers of a language is one of the most debated topics in cognitive science. Existing se...
Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Dependency Tree-based Sentiment Classification using CRFs with Hidden Variables
In this paper, we present a dependency treebased method for sentiment classification of Japanese and English subjective sentences using conditional random fields with hidden varia...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kentaro Inui, Sadao Kurohashi
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Some Empirical Evidence for Annotation Noise in a Benchmarked Dataset
A number of recent articles in computational linguistics venues called for a closer examination of the type of noise present in annotated datasets used for benchmarking (Reidsma a...
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Eyal Beigman
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Dialogue-Oriented Review Summary Generation for Spoken Dialogue Recommendation Systems
In this paper we present an opinion summarization technique in spoken dialogue systems. Opinion mining has been well studied for years, but very few have considered its applicatio...
Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff, Victor Zue
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature
Knowledge extraction from online repositories such as PubMed holds the promise of dramatically speeding up biomedical research and drug design. After initially focusing on recogni...
Hoifung Poon, Lucy Vanderwende
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron
Perceptron training is widely applied in the natural language processing community for learning complex structured models. Like all structured prediction learning frameworks, the ...
Ryan T. McDonald, Keith Hall, Gideon Mann
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Word Sense Subjectivity for Cross-lingual Lexical Substitution
We explore the relation between word sense subjectivity and cross-lingual lexical substitution, following the intuition that good substitutions will transfer a word's (contex...
Fangzhong Su, Katja Markert
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Stream-based Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Typical statistical machine translation systems are trained with static parallel corpora. Here we account for scenarios with a continuous incoming stream of parallel training data...
Abby Levenberg, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborn...