ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to building a non-English (Arabic) stemmer. The stemming model is based on statistical machine translation and it uses an Eng...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
We present a large-scale meta evaluation of eight evaluation measures for both single-document and multi-document summarizers. To this end we built a corpus consisting of (a) 100 ...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
This paper presents a new bottom-up chart parsing algorithm for Prolog along with a compilation procedure that reduces the amount of copying at run-time to a constant number (2) p...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
This paper proposes a hybrid of handcrafted rules and a machine learning method for chunking Korean. In the partially free word-order languages such as Korean and Japanese, a smal...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
Traditional vector-based models use word co-occurrence counts from large corpora to represent lexical meaning. In this paper we present a novel approach for constructing semantic ...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
Often, the training procedure for statistical machine translation models is based on maximum likelihood or related criteria. A general problem of this approach is that there is on...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
We present a supervised machine learning algorithm for metonymy resolution, which exploits the similarity between examples of conventional metonymy. We show that syntactic head-mo...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
A central problem of word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the lack of manually sense-tagged data required for supervised learning. In this paper, we evaluate an approach to automati...