ACL
2004
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2004
This paper discusses the application of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) clustering algorithm to the task of Chinese verb sense discrimination. The model utilized rich linguistic...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
This paper describes an algorithm for detecting empty nodes in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), finding their antecedents, and assigning them function tags, without access...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
The parameters of statistical translation models are typically estimated from sentence-aligned parallel corpora. We show that significant improvements in the alignment and transla...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
This paper shows how finite approximations of long distance dependency (LDD) resolution can be obtained automatically for wide-coverage, robust, probabilistic Lexical-Functional G...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
We describe two probabilistic models for unsupervised word-sense disambiguation using parallel corpora. The first model, which we call the Sense model, builds on the work of Diab ...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
This paper describes an empirical study of the "Information Synthesis" task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and inte...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Sentiment classification is the task of labeling a review document according to the polarity of its prevailing opinion (favorable or unfavorable). In approaching this problem, a m...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
We present the first algorithm that computes optimal orderings of sentences into a locally coherent discourse. The algorithm runs very efficiently on a variety of coherence measur...
ACL
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
We present the results of an experiment on extending the automatic method of Machine Translation evaluation BLUE with statistical weights for lexical items, such as tf.idf scores....