ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
Dependency structures do not have the information of phrase categories in phrase structure grammar. Thus, dependency parsing relies heavily on the lexical information of words. Th...
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
2008
In this paper, we report on a set of initial results for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We show that morphological decomposition of the Arabic source is ...
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
Inspired by previous preprocessing approaches to SMT, this paper proposes a novel, probabilistic approach to reordering which combines the merits of syntax and phrase-based SMT. G...
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
2008
We present a robust parser which is trained on a treebank of ungrammatical sentences. The treebank is created automatically by modifying Penn treebank sentences so that they conta...
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
We address the task of unsupervised topic segmentation of speech data operating over raw acoustic information. In contrast to existing algorithms for topic segmentation of speech,...
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
2008
This paper presents an approach to detection of the semantic types of relation arguments employing the WordNet hierarchy. Using the SemEval-2007 data, we show that the method allo...
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
We propose a novel method to expand a small existing translation dictionary to a large translation dictionary using a pivot language. Our method depends on the assumption that it ...
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
2008
While speech recognition systems have come a long way in the last thirty years, there is still room for improvement. Although readily available, these systems are sometimes inaccu...
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
2008
Parser self-training is the technique of taking an existing parser, parsing extra data and then creating a second parser by treating the extra data as further training data. Here ...