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ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Word Alignment with Synonym Regularization
We present a novel framework for word alignment that incorporates synonym knowledge collected from monolingual linguistic resources in a bilingual probabilistic model. Synonym inf...
Hiroyuki Shindo, Akinori Fujino, Masaaki Nagata
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Classification of Feedback Expressions in Multimodal Data
This paper addresses the issue of how linguistic feedback expressions, prosody and head gestures, i.e. head movements and face expressions, relate to one another in a collection o...
Costanza Navarretta, Patrizia Paggio
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Distributional Similarity vs. PU Learning for Entity Set Expansion
Distributional similarity is a classic technique for entity set expansion, where the system is given a set of seed entities of a particular class, and is asked to expand the set u...
Xiaoli Li, Lei Zhang, Bing Liu, See-Kiong Ng
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Prevalence of Descriptive Referring Expressions in News and Narrative
Generating referring expressions is a key step in Natural Language Generation. Researchers have focused almost exclusively on generating distinctive referring expressions, that is...
Raquel Hervás, Mark A. Finlayson
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study
Speech recognition affords automobile drivers a hands-free, eyes-free method of replying to Short Message Service (SMS) text messages. Although a voice search approach based on te...
Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Coreference Resolution with Reconcile
Despite the existence of several noun phrase coreference resolution data sets as well as several formal evaluations on the task, it remains frustratingly difficult to compare resu...
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Nathan Gilbert, E...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus
We propose a corpus-based probabilistic framework to extract hidden common syntax across languages from non-parallel multilingual corpora in an unsupervised fashion. For this purp...
Tomoharu Iwata, Daichi Mochihashi, Hiroshi Sawada
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Cognitively Plausible Models of Human Language Processing
We pose the development of cognitively plausible models of human language processing as a challenge for computational linguistics. Existing models can only deal with isolated phen...
Frank Keller
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Hierarchical A* Parsing with Bridge Outside Scores
Hierarchical A (HA) uses of a hierarchy of coarse grammars to speed up parsing without sacrificing optimality. HA prioritizes search in refined grammars using Viterbi outside cost...
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein