EMNLP
2008
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2008
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We present Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheses. We describe conditions on the loss function t...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Statistical parsers have become increasingly accurate, to the point where they are useful in many natural language applications. However, estimating parsing accuracy on a wide var...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
In this paper we present a textual dialogue system that uses word associations retrieved from the Web to create propositions. We also show experiment results for the role of modal...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Graph-based and transition-based approaches to dependency parsing adopt very different views of the problem, each view having its own strengths and limitations. We study both appr...
LREC
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
In Natural Language Processing (NLP), the quality of a system depends to a great extent on the quality of the linguistic resources it uses. Due to the unpredictable character of v...
LREC
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
We present in this paper our project to building an ontology centered infrastructure for Arabic resources and applications. The core of this infrastructure is a linguistic ontolog...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of a syntax-based machine translation model with a phrase-based machine translation model on several levels. We briefly descr...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We address the problem of smoothing translation probabilities in a bilingual N-grambased statistical machine translation system. It is proposed to project the bilingual tuples ont...