EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
This paper explores two classes of model adaptation methods for Web search ranking: Model Interpolation and error-driven learning approaches based on a boosting algorithm. The res...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
We propose a novel language-independent approach for improving statistical machine translation for resource-poor languages by exploiting their similarity to resource-rich ones. Mo...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
A large body of recent research has been investigating the acquisition and application of applied inference knowledge. Such knowledge may be typically captured as entailment rules...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
We present a method to align words in a bitext that combines elements of a traditional statistical approach with linguistic knowledge. We demonstrate this approach for Arabic-Engl...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
Set expansion refers to expanding a partial set of "seed" objects into a more complete set. One system that does set expansion is SEAL (Set Expander for Any Language), w...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
This paper proposes a method that speeds up a classifier trained with many conjunctive features: combinations of (primitive) features. The key idea is to precompute as partial res...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
Automatically detecting human social intentions from spoken conversation is an important task for dialogue understanding. Since the social intentions of the speaker may differ fro...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
We present a method for detecting and correcting multiple real-word spelling errors using the Google Web 1T 3-gram data set and a normalized and modified version of the Longest Co...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
We propose a novel objective function for discriminatively tuning log-linear machine translation models. Our objective explicitly optimizes the BLEU score of expected n-gram count...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
2009
This paper presents a supervised method for resolving metonymies. We enhance a commonly used feature set with features extracted based on collocation information from corpora, gen...