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EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Improved Transliteration Mining Using Graph Reinforcement
Ali El Kahki, Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Saad El Din, M...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags
We show that categories induced by unsupervised word clustering can surpass the performance of gold part-of-speech tags in dependency grammar induction. Unlike classic clustering ...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Angel X. Ch...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
We present new training methods that aim to mitigate local optima and slow convergence in unsupervised training by using additional imperfect objectives. In its simplest form, lat...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering
We propose a simple training regime that can improve the extrinsic performance of a parser, given only a corpus of sentences and a way to automatically evaluate the extrinsic qual...
Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan T. McDonald, F...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text
Johannes Hoffart, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Ilaria Bordi...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Syntax-Based Grammaticality Improvement using CCG and Guided Search
Machine-produced text often lacks grammaticality and fluency. This paper studies grammaticality improvement using a syntax-based algorithm based on CCG. The goal of the search pr...
Yue Zhang 0004, Stephen Clark
EMNLP
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Unsupervised Information Extraction with Distributional Prior Knowledge
Cane Wing-ki Leung, Jing Jiang, Kian Ming Adam Cha...