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ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Top-Down K-Best A* Parsing
We propose a top-down algorithm for extracting k-best lists from a parser. Our algorithm, TKA is a variant of the kbest A (KA) algorithm of Pauls and Klein (2009). In contrast to ...
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, Chris Quirk
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Domain Adaptation of Maximum Entropy Language Models
We investigate a recently proposed Bayesian adaptation method for building style-adapted maximum entropy language models for speech recognition, given a large corpus of written la...
Tanel Alumäe, Mikko Kurimo
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Vocabulary Choice as an Indicator of Perspective
We establish the following characteristics of the task of perspective classification: (a) using term frequencies in a document does not improve classification achieved with absenc...
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Eyal Beigman, Daniel Dierm...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Arabic Named Entity Recognition: Using Features Extracted from Noisy Data
Building an accurate Named Entity Recognition (NER) system for languages with complex morphology is a challenging task. In this paper, we present research that explores the featur...
Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni, Mona T. Diab, Paol...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Joint Rule Selection Model for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
In hierarchical phrase-based SMT systems, statistical models are integrated to guide the hierarchical rule selection for better translation performance. Previous work mainly focus...
Lei Cui, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Tiejun ...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Tree-Based Deterministic Dependency Parsing - An Application to Nivre's Method -
Nivre's method was improved by enhancing deterministic dependency parsing through application of a tree-based model. The model considers all words necessary for selection of ...
Kotaro Kitagawa, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
An Open-Source Package for Recognizing Textual Entailment
This paper presents a general-purpose open source package for recognizing Textual Entailment. The system implements a collection of algorithms, providing a configurable framework ...
Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Inference through Cascades of Weighted Tree Transducers
Weighted tree transducers have been proposed as useful formal models for representing syntactic natural language processing applications, but there has been little description of ...
Jonathan May, Kevin Knight, Heiko Vogler
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia
Wikipedia articles in different languages are connected by interwiki links that are increasingly being recognized as a valuable source of cross-lingual information. Unfortunately,...
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Open-Domain Semantic Role Labeling by Modeling Word Spans
Most supervised language processing systems show a significant drop-off in performance when they are tested on text that comes from a domain significantly different from the domai...
Fei Huang, Alexander Yates