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ACL
2006
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A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment
This paper proposes a knowledge representation model and a logic proving setting with axioms on demand successfully used for recognizing textual entailments. It also details a lex...
Marta Tatu, Dan I. Moldovan
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Modelling Lexical Redundancy for Machine Translation
Certain distinctions made in the lexicon of one language may be redundant when translating into another language. We quantify redundancy among source types by the similarity of th...
David Talbot, Miles Osborne
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles
The integration of sophisticated inference-based techniques into natural language processing applications first requires a reliable method of encoding the predicate-argument struc...
Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to Predict Case Markers in Japanese
Japanese case markers, which indicate the grammatical relation of the complement NP to the predicate, often pose challenges to the generation of Japanese text, be it done by a for...
Hisami Suzuki, Kristina Toutanova
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate Evaluation Measures
This paper proposes a framework for training Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to optimize multivariate evaluation measures, including non-linear measures such as F-score. Our prop...
Jun Suzuki, Erik McDermott, Hideki Isozaki
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora
In this paper we investigate ChineseEnglish name transliteration using comparable corpora, corpora where texts in the two languages deal in some of the same topics -- and therefor...
Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Accurate Collocation Extraction Using a Multilingual Parser
This paper focuses on the use of advanced techniques of text analysis as support for collocation extraction. A hybrid system is presented that combines statistical methods and mul...
Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Multilingual Legal Terminology on the Jibiki Platform: The LexALP Project
This paper presents the particular use of "Jibiki" (Papillon's web server development platform) for the LexALP1 project. LexALP's goal is to harmonise the term...
Gilles Sérasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat, El...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD - First Results
We present a novel hybrid approach for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) which makes use of a relational formalism to represent instances and background knowledge. It is built using...
Lucia Specia
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Discourse Generation Using Utility-Trained Coherence Models
We describe a generic framework for integrating various stochastic models of discourse coherence in a manner that takes advantage of their individual strengths. An integral part o...
Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu