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ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics
We describe a biographical multidocument summarizer that summarizes information about people described in the news. The summarizer uses corpus statistics along with linguistic kno...
Barry Schiffman, Inderjeet Mani, Kristian J. Conce...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Chunk-Based Statistical Translation
This paper describes an alternative translation model based on a text chunk under the framework of statistical machine translation. The translation model suggested here first per...
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Hiroshi G. Okuno
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirically Motivated Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions
We describe an algorithm for generating multimodal referring expressions, based on empirical data. The main novelties are (1) a decision to point based on both the efficiency of p...
Ielka van der Sluis
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Extracting Key Semantic Terms from Chinese Speech Query for Web Searches
This paper discusses the challenges and proposes a solution to performing information retrieval on the Web using Chinese natural language speech query. The main contribution of th...
Gang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Yongcheng Wang
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Using Machine Learning to Maintain Rule-based Named-Entity Recognition and Classification Systems
This paper presents a method that assists in maintaining a rule-based named-entity recognition and classification system. The underlying idea is to use a separate system, construc...
Georgios Petasis, Frantz Vichot, Francis Wolinski,...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Effective Phrase Translation Extraction from Alignment Models
Phrase level translation models are effective in improving translation quality by addressing the problem of local re-ordering across language boundaries. Methods that attempt to f...
Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Using a Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate an NLG System
The STOP system, which generates personalised smoking-cessation letters, was evaluated by a randomised controlled clinical trial. We believe this is the largest and perhaps most r...
Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, A. Scott Lennox, Lies...
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Tractability and Structural Closures in Attribute Logic Type Signatures
This paper considers three assumptions conventionally made about signatures in typed feature logic that are in potential disagreement with current practice among grammar developer...
Gerald Penn
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences
We have aligned Japanese and English news articles and sentences to make a large parallel corpus. We first used a method based on cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) to a...
Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese
This paper describes two methods for detecting word segments and their morphological information in a Japanese spontaneous speech corpus, and describes how to tag a large spontane...
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Chikashi Nobata, Atsushi Yamada...