COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We report on the large-scale acquisition of class attributes with and without the use of lists of representative instances, as well as the discovery of unary attributes, such as t...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Translation model size is growing at a pace that outstrips improvements in computing power, and this hinders research on many interesting models. We show how an algorithmic scalin...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Finite-state Transducers (FST) can be very efficient to implement inter-dialectal transliteration. We illustrate this on the Hindi and Urdu language pair. FSTs can also be used fo...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
One style of Multi-Engine Machine Translation architecture involves choosing the best of a set of outputs from different systems. Choosing the best translation from an arbitrary s...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We present an algorithm for unsupervised induction of labeled parse trees. The algorithm has three stages: bracketing, initial labeling, and label clustering. Bracketing is done f...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Och's (2003) minimum error rate training (MERT) procedure is the most commonly used method for training feature weights in statistical machine translation (SMT) models. The u...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper proposes an other-anaphora resolution approach in bio-medical texts. It utilizes automatically mined patterns to discover the semantic relation between an anaphor and a...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Media reporting shapes public opinion which can in turn influence events, particularly in political elections, in which candidates both respond to and shape public perception of t...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper presents an implemented hybrid approach to grammar and style checking, combining an industrial patternbased grammar and style checker with bidirectional, large-scale HP...