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ACL
2001
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Guided Parsing of Range Concatenation Languages
The theoretical study of the range concatenation grammar [RCG] formalism has revealed many attractive properties which may be used in NLP. In particular, range concatenation langu...
François Barthélemy, Pierre Boullier...
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data
This paper describes a method for learning the countability preferences of English nouns from raw text corpora. The method maps the corpus-attested lexico-syntactic properties of ...
Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation Tool for Rule-based Anaphora Resolution Methods
In this paper we argue that comparative evaluation in anaphora resolution has to be performed using the same pre-processing tools and on the same set of data. The paper proposes a...
Catalina Barbu, Ruslan Mitkov
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
Michele Banko, Eric Brill
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models
Recent text and speech processing applications such as speech mining raise new and more general problems related to the construction of language models. We present and describe in...
Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics
Short vowels and other diacritics are not part of written Arabic scripts. Exceptions are made for important political and religious texts and in scripts for beginning students of ...
Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
The Effect of Translation Quality in MT-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval
This paper explores the relationship between the translation quality and the retrieval effectiveness in Machine Translation (MT) based Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)....
Jiang Zhu, Haifeng Wang
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling Commonality among Related Classes in Relation Extraction
This paper proposes a novel hierarchical learning strategy to deal with the data sparseness problem in relation extraction by modeling the commonality among related classes. For e...
Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Min Zhang
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
BiTAM: Bilingual Topic AdMixture Models for Word Alignment
We propose a novel bilingual topical admixture (BiTAM) formalism for word alignment in statistical machine translation. Under this formalism, the parallel sentence-pairs within a ...
Bing Zhao, Eric P. Xing