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ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation
Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user fe...
François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation
We address the problem of translating from morphologically poor to morphologically rich languages by adding per-word linguistic information to the source language. We use the synt...
Eleftherios Avramidis, Philipp Koehn
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint-Driven Learning
Over the last few years, two of the main research directions in machine learning of natural language processing have been the study of semi-supervised learning algorithms as a way...
Ming-Wei Chang, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Dan Roth
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora
Paraphrase patterns are useful in paraphrase recognition and generation. In this paper, we present a pivot approach for extracting paraphrase patterns from bilingual parallel corp...
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation
We propose a novel approach to crosslingual language model (LM) adaptation based on bilingual Latent Semantic Analysis (bLSA). A bLSA model is introduced which enables latent topi...
Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian R. Lane, Tanja Schultz
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Finding Contradictions in Text
Detecting conflicting statements is a foundational text understanding task with applications in information analysis. We propose an appropriate definition of contradiction for NLP...
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Chr...
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
A Hybrid Approach to Word Segmentation and POS Tagging
In this paper, we present a hybrid method for word segmentation and POS tagging. The target languages are those in which word boundaries are ambiguous, such as Chinese and Japanes...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
A Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form in CCG
The standard set of rules defined in Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) fails to provide satisfactory analyses for a number of syntactic structures found in natural languages. T...
Frederick Hoyt, Jason Baldridge
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation
Recent research presents conflicting evidence on whether word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems can help to improve the performance of statistical machine translation (MT) syste...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng, David Chiang
ACL
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Improving Parsing and PP Attachment Performance with Sense Information
To date, parsers have made limited use of semantic information, but there is evidence to suggest that semantic features can enhance parse disambiguation. This paper shows that sem...
Eneko Agirre, Timothy Baldwin, David Martín...