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ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data
This paper proposes the “Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph (HDAG) Kernel” for structured natural language data. The HDAG Kernel directly accepts several levels of both chunk...
Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki, Eisaku M...
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating a Trainable Sentence Planner for a Spoken Dialogue System
Techniques for automatically training modules of a natural language generator have recently been proposed, but a fundamental concern is whether the quality of utterances produced ...
Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction
In this paper we present a novel, customizable IE paradigm that takes advantage of predicate-argument structures. We also introduce a new way of automatically identifying predicat...
Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda M. Harabagiu, John Williams,...
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Automated Parser Construction from a Treebank by means of TBL and ILP
Considering the difficulties inherent in the manual construction of natural language parsers, we have designed and implemented our system GRIND which is capable of learning a sequ...
Miloslav Nepil
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition
Several approaches have been described for the automatic unsupervised acquisition of patterns for information extraction. Each approach is based on a particular model for the patt...
Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue
We apply a decision tree based approach to pronoun resolution in spoken dialogue. Our system deals with pronouns with NPand non-NP-antecedents. We present a set of features design...
Michael Strube, Christoph Müller
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Unified Approach to Memory- and Statistical-Based Machine Translation
We present a set of algorithms that enable us to translate natural language sentences by exploiting both a translation memory and a statistical-based translation model. Our result...
Daniel Marcu
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information
Automatically acquiring synonymous collocation pairs such as <turn on, OBJ, light> and <switch on, OBJ, light> from corpora is a challenging task. For this task, we ca...
Hua Wu, Ming Zhou
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German
The paper describes two parsing schemes: a shallow approach based on machine learning and a cascaded finite-state parser with a hand-crafted grammar. It discusses several ways to...
Michael Schiehlen