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ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Bootstrapping a Stochastic Transducer for Arabic-English Transliteration Extraction
We propose a bootstrapping approach to training a memoriless stochastic transducer for the task of extracting transliterations from an English-Arabic bitext. The transducer learns...
Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
A Grammar-driven Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Classification
Convolution tree kernel has shown promising results in semantic role classification. However, it only carries out hard matching, which may lead to over-fitting and less accurate s...
Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che, AiTi Aw, Chew Lim Tan, Gu...
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Sequential Labeling for Semi-spoken Language
The amount of documents directly published by end users is increasing along with the growth of Web 2.0. Such documents often contain spoken-style expressions, which are difficult...
Kenji Imamura, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Norihito Yasuda
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Computing Lexical Chains with Graph Clustering
This paper describes a new method for computing lexical chains. These are sequences of semantically related words that reflect a text’s cohesive structure. In contrast to previo...
Olena Medelyan
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture
We describe a novel neural network architecture for the problem of semantic role labeling. Many current solutions are complicated, consist of several stages and handbuilt features...
Ronan Collobert, Jason Weston
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Extending MARIE: an N-gram-based SMT decoder
In this paper we present several extensions of MARIE1 , a freely available N-gram-based statistical machine translation (SMT) decoder. The extensions mainly consist of the ability...
Josep Maria Crego, José B. Mariño
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging
Unsupervised learning of linguistic structure is a difficult problem. A common approach is to define a generative model and maximize the probability of the hidden structure give...
Sharon Goldwater, Tom Griffiths
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Generating a Table-of-Contents
This paper presents a method for the automatic generation of a table-of-contents. This type of summary could serve as an effective navigation tool for accessing information in lon...
S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzila...