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ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Substring-Based Transliteration
Transliteration is the task of converting a word from one alphabetic script to another. We present a novel, substring-based approach to transliteration, inspired by phrasebased mo...
Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Empirical Measurements of Lexical Similarity in Noun Phrase Conjuncts
The ability to detect similarity in conjunct heads is potentially a useful tool in helping to disambiguate coordination structures - a difficult task for parsers. We propose a di...
Deirdre Hogan
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Measuring Importance and Query Relevance in Topic-focused Multi-document Summarization
The increasing complexity of summarization systems makes it difficult to analyze exactly which modules make a difference in performance. We carried out a principled comparison be...
Surabhi Gupta, Ani Nenkova, Daniel Jurafsky
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
A Linguistic Service Ontology for Language Infrastructures
This paper introduces conceptual framework of an ontology for describing linguistic services on network-based language infrastructures. The ontology defines a taxonomy of processi...
Yoshihiko Hayashi
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses
We investigate the factors which determine constituent order in German clauses and propose an algorithm which performs the task in two steps: First, the best candidate for the ini...
Katja Filippova, Michael Strube
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
An API for Measuring the Relatedness of Words in Wikipedia
We present an API for computing the semantic relatedness of words in Wikipedia.
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models With Prior Knowledge
We present a general framework to incorporate prior knowledge such as heuristics or linguistic features in statistical generative word alignment models. Prior knowledge plays a ro...
Yonggang Deng, Yuqing Gao
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web
This paper presents an approach for the automatic acquisition of qualia structures for nouns from the Web and thus opens the possibility to explore the impact of qualia structures...
Philipp Cimiano, Johanna Wenderoth
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Making Lexical Ontologies Functional and Context-Sensitive
Human categorization is neither a binary nor a context-free process. Rather, some concepts are better examples of a category than others, while the criteria for category membershi...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao