EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
We introduce an extension to CCG that allows form and function to be represented simultaneously, reducing the proliferation of modifier categories seen in standard CCG analyses. W...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Recently system combination has been shown to be an effective way to improve translation quality over single machine translation systems. In this paper, we present a simple and ef...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
In this work we present a novel technique to rescore fragments in the Data-Oriented Translation model based on their contribution to translation accuracy. We describe three new re...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
This paper presents preliminary results on the detection of cultural differences from people's experiences in various countries from two perspectives: tourists and locals. Ou...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
There have been considerable attempts to incorporate semantic knowledge into coreference resolution systems: different knowledge sources such as WordNet and Wikipedia have been us...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
In this paper, we propose a linear model-based general framework to combine k-best parse outputs from multiple parsers. The proposed framework leverages on the strengths of previo...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Statistical bilingual word alignment has been well studied in the context of machine translation. This paper adapts the bilingual word alignment algorithm to monolingual scenario ...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Distinguishing speculative statements from factual ones is important for most biomedical text mining applications. We introduce an approach which is based on solving two sub-probl...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 10 months ago
2009
In this paper we investigate temporal patterns of web search queries. We carry out several evaluations to analyze the properties of temporal profiles of queries, revealing promisi...