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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data
This paper proposes a semi-supervised boosting approach to improve statistical word alignment with limited labeled data and large amounts of unlabeled data. The proposed approach ...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Zhan-yi Liu
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs
We present an elegant and extensible model that is capable of providing semantic interpretations for an unusually wide range of textual tables in documents. Unlike the few existin...
Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Computational Analysis of Move Structures in Academic Abstracts
Jien-Chen Wu, Yu-Chia Chang, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jaso...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Word Sense and Subjectivity
Subjectivity and meaning are both important properties of language. This paper explores their interaction, and brings empirical evidence in support of the hypotheses that (1) subj...
Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence
This paper describes a study of the patterns of translational equivalence exhibited by a variety of bitexts. The study found that the complexity of these patterns in every bitext ...
Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Mela...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
TwicPen: Hand-held Scanner and Translation Software for non-Native Readers
TwicPen is a terminology-assistance system for readers of printed (ie. off-line) material in foreign languages. It consists of a hand-held scanner and sophisticated parsing and tr...
Eric Wehrli
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
We present a hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation in which a target sentence is efficiently generated in left-to-right order. The model is a class of synchron...
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis
This paper describes an architecture to convert Sinhala Unicode text into phonemic specification of pronunciation. The study was mainly focused on disambiguating schwa-/\/ and /a/...
Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Kumudu Gamage
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs
This paper proposes an approach to improve word alignment for languages with scarce resources using bilingual corpora of other language pairs. To perform word alignment between la...
Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Zhan-yi Liu
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese
We present a novel classifier-based deterministic parser for Chinese constituency parsing. Our parser computes parse trees from bottom up in one pass, and uses classifiers to make...
Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura