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ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation
Despite its long history, and a great deal of research producing many useful algorithms and observations, research in cooperative response generation has had little impact on the ...
Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn A. Walker
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps
A number of Russian verbs lack 1sg nonpast forms. These paradigmatic gaps are puzzling because they seemingly contradict the highly productive nature of inflectional systems. We m...
Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims, Janet Pierrehumbert
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model
In this paper, we propose a novel string-todependency algorithm for statistical machine translation. With this new framework, we employ a target dependency language model during d...
Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications
A standard form of analysis for linguistic typology is the universal implication. These implications state facts about the range of extant languages, such as “if objects come af...
Hal Daumé III, Lyle Campbell
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Using Adaptor Grammars to Identify Synergies in the Unsupervised Acquisition of Linguistic Structure
Adaptor grammars (Johnson et al., 2007b) are a non-parametric Bayesian extension of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (PCFGs) which in effect learn the probabilities of entire s...
Mark Johnson
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model
We present an unsupervised, nonparametric Bayesian approach to coreference resolution which models both global entity identity across a corpus as well as the sequential anaphoric ...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition
This paper proposes a framework for representing the meaning of phrases and sentences in vector space. Central to our approach is vector composition which we operationalize in ter...
Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
This paper explores methods for generating subjectivity analysis resources in a new language by leveraging on the tools and resources available in English. Given a bridge between ...
Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea, Janyce Wiebe
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information
This paper addresses the automatic classification of semantic relations in noun phrases based on cross-linguistic evidence from a set of five Romance languages. A set of novel s...
Roxana Girju