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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) addresses the problem of extracting semantic meaning conveyed in an utterance. The traditional knowledge-based approach to this problem is very...
Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Word Vectors and Two Kinds of Similarity
This paper examines what kind of similarity between words can be represented by what kind of word vectors in the vector space model. Through two experiments, three methods for con...
Akira Utsumi, Daisuke Suzuki
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine Learning Approaches
Sentence compression is a task of creating a short grammatical sentence by removing extraneous words or phrases from an original sentence while preserving its meaning. Existing me...
Yuya Unno, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ich...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Advances in Discriminative Parsing
The present work advances the accuracy and training speed of discriminative parsing. Our discriminative parsing method has no generative component, yet surpasses a generative base...
Joseph P. Turian, I. Dan Melamed
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Integrated Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation for Modern Hebrew
Current parsing models are not immediately applicable for languages that exhibit strong interaction between morphology and syntax, e.g., Modern Hebrew (MH), Arabic and other Semit...
Reut Tsarfaty
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Using Word Support Model to Improve Chinese Input System
This paper presents a word support model (WSM). The WSM can effectively perform homophone selection and syllable-word segmentation to improve Chinese input systems. The experiment...
Jia-Lin Tsai
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Statistical Phrase-Based Models for Interactive Computer-Assisted Translation
Obtaining high-quality machine translations is still a long way off. A postediting phase is required to improve the output of a machine translation system. An alternative is the s...
Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Infrastructure for Standardization of Asian Language Resources
As an area of great linguistic and cultural diversity, Asian language resources have received much less attention than their western counterparts. Creating a common standard for A...
Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thats...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT
This paper presents a novel training algorithm for a linearly-scored block sequence translation model. The key component is a new procedure to directly optimize the global scoring...
Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang