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ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Inducing Combinatory Categorial Grammars with Genetic Algorithms
This paper proposes a novel approach to the induction of Combinatory Categorial Grammars (CCGs) by their potential affinity with the Genetic Algorithms (GAs). Specifically, CCGs...
Elias Ponvert
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Novel Semantic Features for Verb Sense Disambiguation
We propose a novel method for extracting semantic information about a verb's arguments and apply it to Verb Sense Disambiguation (VSD). We contrast this method with two popul...
Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Linguistically Annotated Reordering Model for BTG-based Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we propose a linguistically annotated reordering model for BTG-based statistical machine translation. The model incorporates linguistic knowledge to predict orders ...
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Coreference-inspired Coherence Modeling
Research on coreference resolution and summarization has modeled the way entities are realized as concrete phrases in discourse. In particular there exist models of the noun phras...
Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
NICT-ATR Speech-to-Speech Translation System
This paper describes the latest version of speech-to-speech translation systems developed by the team of NICT-ATR for over twenty years. The system is now ready to be deployed for...
Eiichiro Sumita, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
High Frequency Word Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue
Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both pr...
Ani Nenkova, Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschb...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining
This paper presents an application of PageRank, a random-walk model originally devised for ranking Web search results, to ranking WordNet synsets in terms of how strongly they pos...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Hierarchical Approach to Encoding Medical Concepts for Clinical Notes
This paper proposes a hierarchical text categorization (TC) approach to encoding free-text clinical notes with ICD-9-CM codes. Preliminary experimental result on the 2007 Computat...
Yitao Zhang