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ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information
Language model (LM) adaptation is important for both speech and language processing. It is often achieved by combining a generic LM with a topic-specific model that is more releva...
Feifan Liu, Yang Liu
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home
In order to effectively access the rapidly increasing range of media content available in the home, new kinds of more natural interfaces are needed. In this paper, we explore the ...
Michael Johnston, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Michelle L...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Poliqarp: An open source corpus indexer and search engine with syntactic extensions
This paper presents recent extensions to Poliqarp, an open source tool for indexing and searching morphosyntactically annotated corpora, which turn it into a tool for indexing and...
Daniel Janus, Adam Przepiórkowski
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Extracting Hypernym Pairs from the Web
We apply pattern-based methods for collecting hypernym relations from the web. We compare our approach with hypernym extraction from morphological clues and from large text corpor...
Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References
Many automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation (MT) rely on making comparisons to human translations, a resource that may not always be available. We present a method f...
Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Shallow Dependency Labeling
We present a formalization of dependency labeling with Integer Linear Programming. We focus on the integration of subcategorization into the decision making process, where the var...
Manfred Klenner
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Machine Translation by Triangulation: Making Effective Use of Multi-Parallel Corpora
Current phrase-based SMT systems perform poorly when using small training sets. This is a consequence of unreliable translation estimates and low coverage over source and target p...
Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Symbolic Approach to Near-Deterministic Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar
Surface realisers divide into those used in generation (NLG geared realisers) and those mirroring the parsing process (Reversible realisers). While the first rely on grammars not...
Claire Gardent, Eric Kow
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation
Recently, confusion network decoding has been applied in machine translation system combination. Due to errors in the hypothesis alignment, decoding may result in ungrammatical co...
Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Spyridon Matsoukas, Richard...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A System for Large-Scale Acquisition of Verbal, Nominal and Adjectival Subcategorization Frames from Corpora
This paper describes the first system for large-scale acquisition of subcategorization frames (SCFs) from English corpus data which can be used to acquire comprehensive lexicons ...
Judita Preiss, Ted Briscoe, Anna Korhonen