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ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm
Standard approaches to Chinese word segmentation treat the problem as a tagging task, assigning labels to the characters in the sequence indicating whether the character marks a w...
Yue Zhang 0004, Stephen Clark
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences
We propose a new, simple model for the automatic induction of selectional preferences, using corpus-based semantic similarity metrics. Focusing on the task of semantic role labeli...
Katrin Erk
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Boosting Statistical Machine Translation by Lemmatization and Linear Interpolation
Data sparseness is one of the factors that degrade statistical machine translation (SMT). Existing work has shown that using morphosyntactic information is an effective solution t...
Ruiqiang Zhang, Eiichiro Sumita
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan, Marita Ailomaa
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Transductive learning for statistical machine translation
Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari, Anoop Sarkar
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length
We examine the problem of choosing word order for a set of dependency trees so as to minimize total dependency length. We present an algorithm for computing the optimal layout of ...
Daniel Gildea, David Temperley
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics
There is little consensus on a standard experimental design for the compound interpretation task. This paper introduces wellmotivated general desiderata for semantic annotation sc...
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation
We present a novel method for predicting inflected word forms for generating morphologically rich languages in machine translation. We utilize a rich set of syntactic and morphol...
Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Resolving It, This, and That in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog
We present an implemented system for the resolution of it, this, and that in transcribed multi-party dialog. The system handles NP-anaphoric as well as discoursedeictic anaphors, ...
Christoph Müller
ACL
2007
14 years 9 days ago
Automatic Discovery of Named Entity Variants: Grammar-driven Approaches to Non-Alphabetical Transliterations
Identification of transliterated names is a particularly difficult task of Named Entity Recognition (NER), especially in the Chinese context. Of all possible variations of trans...
Chu-Ren Huang, Petr Simon, Shu-Kai Hsieh