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ACL
2007
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Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
We introduce a simple method to pack words for statistical word alignment. Our goal is to simplify the task of automatic word alignment by packing several consecutive words togeth...
Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Computing Confidence Scores for All Sub Parse Trees
Computing confidence scores for applications, such as dialogue system, information retrieving and extraction, is an active research area. However, its focus has been primarily on ...
Feng Lin, Fuliang Weng
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating Word Prediction: Framing Keystroke Savings
Researchers typically evaluate word prediction using keystroke savings, however, this measure is not straightforward. We present several complications in computing keystroke savin...
Keith Trnka, Kathleen F. McCoy
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Novel Feature-based Approach to Chinese Entity Relation Extraction
Relation extraction is the task of finding semantic relations between two entities from text. In this paper, we propose a novel feature-based Chinese relation extraction approach ...
Wenjie Li, Peng Zhang, Furu Wei, Yuexian Hou, Qin ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Recent Improvements in the CMU Large Scale Chinese-English SMT System
In this paper we describe recent improvements to components and methods used in our statistical machine translation system for ChineseEnglish used in the January 2008 GALE evaluat...
Almut Silja Hildebrand, Kay Rottmann, Mohamed Noam...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Assessing the Costs of Sampling Methods in Active Learning for Annotation
Traditional Active Learning (AL) techniques assume that the annotation of each datum costs the same. This is not the case when annotating sequences; some sequences will take longe...
Robbie Haertel, Eric K. Ringger, Kevin D. Seppi, J...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
K-best Spanning Tree Parsing
This paper introduces a Maximum Entropy dependency parser based on an efficient kbest Maximum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm. Although recent work suggests that the edge-factored ...
Keith Hall
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Unified Syntactic Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech
This paper describes a syntactic representation for modeling speech repairs. This representation makes use of a right corner transform of syntax trees to produce a tree representa...
Tim Miller, William Schuler
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Finding document topics for improving topic segmentation
Topic segmentation and identification are often tackled as separate problems whereas they are both part of topic analysis. In this article, we study how topic identification can...
Olivier Ferret
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Correlation between ROUGE and Human Evaluation of Extractive Meeting Summaries
Automatic summarization evaluation is critical to the development of summarization systems. While ROUGE has been shown to correlate well with human evaluation for content match in...
Feifan Liu, Yang Liu