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IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study on Language Model Adaptation Using a Metric of Domain Similarity
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
Wei Yuan, Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Term Extraction Based on Perplexity of Compound Words
Many methods of term extraction have been discussed in terms of their accuracy on huge corpora. However, when we try to apply various methods that derive from frequency to a small ...
Minoru Yoshida, Hiroshi Nakagawa
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Parsing the Penn Chinese Treebank with Semantic Knowledge
Abstract. We build a class-based selection preference sub-model to incorporate external semantic knowledge from two Chinese electronic semantic dictionaries. This sub-model is comb...
Deyi Xiong, Shuanglong Li, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin, Y...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Machine Translation Based on Constraint-Based Synchronous Grammar
This paper proposes a variation of synchronous grammar based on the formalism of context-free grammar by generalizing the first component of productions that models the source text...
Fai Wong, Dong-Cheng Hu, Yu-Hang Mao, Ming-Chui Do...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Rule Based Syllabification Algorithm for Sinhala
This paper presents a study of Sinhala syllable structure and an algorithm for identifying syllables in Sinhala words. After a thorough study of the Syllable structure and linguis...
Ruvan Weerasinghe, Asanka Wasala, Kumudu Gamage
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
PP-Attachment Disambiguation Boosted by a Gigantic Volume of Unambiguous Examples
We present a PP-attachment disambiguation method based on a gigantic volume of unambiguous examples extracted from raw corpus. The unambiguous examples are utilized to acquire prec...
Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Analysis of an Iterative Algorithm for Term-Based Ontology Alignment
Abstract. This paper analyzes the results of automatic concept alignment between two ontologies. We use an iterative algorithm to perform concept alignment. The algorithm uses the ...
Shisanu Tongchim, Canasai Kruengkrai, Virach Sornl...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Discovery of Attribute Words from Web Documents
We propose a method of acquiring attribute words for a wide range of objects from Japanese Web documents. The method is a simple unsupervised method that utilizes the statistics of...
Kosuke Tokunaga, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lexical Choice via Topic Adaptation for Paraphrasing Written Language to Spoken Language
Our research aims at developing a system that paraphrases written language text to spoken language style. In such a system, it is important to distinguish between appropriate and i...
Nobuhiro Kaji, Sadao Kurohashi
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A New Method for Sentiment Classification in Text Retrieval
Traditional text categorization is usually a topic-based task, but a subtle demand on information retrieval is to distinguish between positive and negative view on text topic. In t...
Yi Hu, Jianyong Duan, Xiaoming Chen, Bingzhen Pei,...