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ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering
An unsupervised part-of-speech (POS) tagging system that relies on graph clustering methods is described. Unlike in current state-of-the-art approaches, the kind and number of dif...
Chris Biemann
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Bootstrapping Path-Based Pronoun Resolution
We present an approach to pronoun resolution based on syntactic paths. Through a simple bootstrapping procedure, we learn the likelihood of coreference between a pronoun and a can...
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation
In this paper, we describe a rote extractor that learns patterns for finding semantic relationships in unrestricted text, with new procedures for pattern generalization and scorin...
Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura,...
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque
In this paper, we describe the research using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker to be integrated in a grammar checker for Basque. After several experiments, and...
Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza D&ia...
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we argue that n-gram language models are not sufficient to address word reordering required for Machine Translation. We propose a new distortion model that can be u...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Archivus: A Multimodal System for Multimedia Meeting Browsing and Retrieval
This paper presents Archivus, a multimodal language-enabled meeting browsing and retrieval system. The prototype is in an early stage of development, and we are currently explorin...
Marita Ailomaa, Miroslav Melichar, Agnes Lisowska,...
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation
Morphological disambiguation is the process of assigning one set of morphological features to each individual word in a text. When the word is ambiguous (there are several possibl...
Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-Occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements
In this paper, we present a method that improves Japanese dependency parsing by using large-scale statistical information. It takes into account two kinds of information not consi...
Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants
We investigate the unsupervised detection of semi-fixed cue phrases such as "This paper proposes a novel approach. . . 1" from unseen text, on the basis of only a handfu...
Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel