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ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
HPSG Parsing with Shallow Dependency Constraints
We present a novel framework that combines strengths from surface syntactic parsing and deep syntactic parsing to increase deep parsing accuracy, specifically by combining depend...
Kenji Sagae, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation
We describe an open-source toolkit for statistical machine translation whose novel contributions are (a) support for linguistically motivated factors, (b) confusion network decodi...
Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris ...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus
This paper presents the first empirical results to our knowledge on learning synchronous grammars that generate logical forms. Using statistical machine translation techniques, a...
Yuk Wah Wong, Raymond J. Mooney
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Extracting Word Sets with Non-Taxonomical Relation
At least two kinds of relations exist among related words: taxonomical relations and thematic relations. Both relations identify related words useful to language understanding and...
Eiko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Isahara
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Pivot Language Approach for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
This paper proposes a novel method for phrase-based statistical machine translation by using pivot language. To conduct translation between languages Lf and Le with a small biling...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition
We describe the semantic enrichment of journal articles with chemical structures and biomedical ontology terms using Oscar, a program for chemical named entity recognition (NER). ...
Colin R. Batchelor, Peter T. Corbett
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for BLEU
We present a Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoder for statistical machine translation. The approach aims to minimize the expected loss of translation errors with regard to the BLEU sc...
Nicola Ehling, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Pipeline Iteration
This paper presents pipeline iteration, an approach that uses output from later stages of a pipeline to constrain earlier stages of the same pipeline. We demonstrate significant ...
Kristy Hollingshead, Brian Roark
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Unified Tagging Approach to Text Normalization
This paper addresses the issue of text normalization, an important yet often overlooked problem in natural language processing. By text normalization, we mean converting ‘inform...
Conghui Zhu, Jie Tang, Hang Li, Hwee Tou Ng, Tieju...