IALP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
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...
IALP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
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...
IALP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
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 ...
FSMNLP
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Springer
FSMNLP
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
FSMNLP
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Tree based translation models are a compelling means of integrating linguistic information into machine translation. Syntax can inform lexical selection and reordering choices and...