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ACL
2012
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A Meta Learning Approach to Grammatical Error Correction
We introduce a novel method for grammatical error correction with a number of small corpora. To make the best use of several corpora with different characteristics, we employ a me...
Hongsuck Seo, Jonghoon Lee, Seokhwan Kim, Kyusong ...
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Fast and Scalable Decoding with Language Model Look-Ahead for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
In this work we present two extensions to the well-known dynamic programming beam search in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT), aiming at increased efficiency of ...
Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney, Richard Zens
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Learning Better Rule Extraction with Translation Span Alignment
This paper presents an unsupervised approach to learning translation span alignments from parallel data that improves syntactic rule extraction by deleting spurious word alignment...
Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao, Chunliang Zhang
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Coarse Lexical Semantic Annotation with Supersenses: An Arabic Case Study
“Lightweight” semantic annotation of text calls for a simple representation, ideally without requiring a semantic lexicon to achieve good coverage in the language and domain. ...
Nathan Schneider, Behrang Mohit, Kemal Oflazer, No...
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
INPRO_iSS: A Component for Just-In-Time Incremental Speech Synthesis
We present a component for incremental speech synthesis (iSS) and a set of applications that demonstrate its capabilities. This component can be used to increase the responsivity ...
Timo Baumann, David Schlangen
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Coreference Semantics from Web Features
To address semantic ambiguities in coreference resolution, we use Web n-gram features that capture a range of world knowledge in a diffuse but robust way. Specifically, we exploi...
Mohit Bansal, Dan Klein
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Machine Translation without Words through Substring Alignment
In this paper, we demonstrate that accurate machine translation is possible without the concept of “words,” treating MT as a problem of transformation between character string...
Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsu...
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Social Event Radar: A Bilingual Context Mining and Sentiment Analysis Summarization System
Social Event Radar is a new social networking-based service platform, that aim to alert as well as monitor any merchandise flaws, food-safety related issues, unexpected eruption o...
Wen-Tai Hsieh, Chen Ming Wu, Tsun Ku, Seng-cho Tim...
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Modeling Sentences in the Latent Space
Sentence Similarity is the process of computing a similarity score between two sentences. Previous sentence similarity work finds that latent semantics approaches to the problem ...
Weiwei Guo, Mona T. Diab
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Towards the Unsupervised Acquisition of Discourse Relations
This paper describes a novel approach towards the empirical approximation of discourse relations between different utterances in texts. Following the idea that every pair of event...
Christian Chiarcos