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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Phrase-Based Backoff Models for Machine Translation of Highly Inflected Languages
We propose a backoff model for phrasebased machine translation that translates unseen word forms in foreign-language text by hierarchical morphological abstractions at the word an...
Mei Yang, Katrin Kirchhoff
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Unifying Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars and Tree Transducers via Bimorphisms
We place synchronous tree-adjoining grammars and tree transducers in the single overarching framework of bimorphisms, continuing the unification of synchronous grammars and tree t...
Stuart M. Shieber
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Network, a Model for NLP?
The NLP systems often have low performances because they rely on unreliable and heterogeneous knowledge. We show on the task of non-anaphoric it identification how to overcome the...
Davy Weissenbacher
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Lexicalising Word Order Constraints for Implemented Linearisation Grammar
This paper presents a way in which a lexicalised HPSG grammar can handle word order constraints in a computational parsing system, without invoking an additional layer of represen...
Yo Sato
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Lexical Alignment by Combining Multiple Reified Alignments
We describe a word alignment platform which ensures text pre-processing (tokenization, POS-tagging, lemmatization, chunking, sentence alignment) as required by an accurate word al...
Dan Tufis, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Stefane...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Investigating a Generic Paraphrase-Based Approach for Relation Extraction
Unsupervised paraphrase acquisition has been an active research field in recent years, but its effective coverage and performance have rarely been evaluated. We propose a generic ...
Lorenza Romano, Milen Kouylekov, Idan Szpektor, Id...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Compiling French-Japanese Terminologies from the Web
We propose a method for compiling bilingual terminologies of multi-word terms (MWTs) for given translation pairs of seed terms. Traditional methods for bilingual terminology compi...
Xavier Robitaille, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Masatsugu Tono...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Developing an Approach for Why-Question Answering
In the current project, we aim at developing an approach for automatically answering why-questions. We created a data collection for research, development and evaluation of a meth...
Suzan Verberne
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Computational Complexity of Statistical Machine Translation
Raghavendra Udupa, Hemanta Kumar Maji
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring the Sense Distributions of Homographs
This paper quantitatively investigates in how far local context is useful to disambiguate the senses of an ambiguous word. This is done by comparing the co-occurrence frequencies ...
Reinhard Rapp