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ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Improvement of a Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model Using Grammatical Features
In this paper, we propose adding long-term grammatical information in a Whole Sentence Maximun Entropy Language Model (WSME) in order to improve the performance of the model. The ...
Fredy A. Amaya, José-Miguel Benedí
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus
While paraphrasing is critical both for interpretation and generation of natural language, current systems use manual or semi-automatic methods to collect paraphrases. We present ...
Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Guided Parsing of Range Concatenation Languages
The theoretical study of the range concatenation grammar [RCG] formalism has revealed many attractive properties which may be used in NLP. In particular, range concatenation langu...
François Barthélemy, Pierre Boullier...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Evaluation Tool for Rule-based Anaphora Resolution Methods
In this paper we argue that comparative evaluation in anaphora resolution has to be performed using the same pre-processing tools and on the same set of data. The paper proposes a...
Catalina Barbu, Ruslan Mitkov
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
Michele Banko, Eric Brill