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IALP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improving the Performance of the Link Parser
The paper describes an approach to extend the coverage of a Link Grammar based parser on the constructions that are not being handled currently by the grammar. There are about thir...
Yalamanchi Viswanatha Naidu, Anil Kumar Singh, Dip...
IALP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Challenges in Developing Persian Corpora from Online Resources
Persian is one of the Indo-European languages which has borrowed its script from Arabic, a member of Semitic language family. Since Persian and Arabic scripts are so similar, prob...
Masood Ghayoomi, Saeedeh Momtazi
IALP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Dialog-Act Recognition Using Discourse and Sentence Structure Information
Automatic recognition of Dialog-act (DA) is one of the most important processes in understanding spontaneous dialog. Most existing studies have been working on how to use various ...
Keyan Zhou, Chengqing Zong
FSMNLP
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Minimizing Weighted Tree Grammars Using Simulation
Weighted tree grammars (for short: WTG) are an extension of weighted context-free grammars that generate trees instead of strings. They can be used in natural language parsing to d...
Andreas Maletti
FSMNLP
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Zulu: An Interactive Learning Competition
Abstract. Active language learning is an interesting task for which theoretical results are known and several applications exist. In order to better understand what the better stra...
David Combe, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe ...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Recognizing Textual Relatedness with Predicate-Argument Structures
In this paper, we first compare several strategies to handle the newly proposed three-way Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) task. Then we define a new measurement for a pair of...
Rui Wang 0005, Yi Zhang 0003
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Feasibility of Human-in-the-loop Minimum Error Rate Training
Minimum error rate training (MERT) involves choosing parameter values for a machine translation (MT) system that maximize performance on a tuning set as measured by an automatic e...
Omar Zaidan, Chris Callison-Burch
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Effective Use of Linguistic and Contextual Information for Statistical Machine Translation
Current methods of using lexical features in machine translation have difficulty in scaling up to realistic MT tasks due to a prohibitively large number of parameters involved. In...
Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction
Tree based translation models are a compelling means of integrating linguistic information into machine translation. Syntax can inform lexical selection and reordering choices and...
Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom