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ACL
2006
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A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes
We propose a new hierarchical Bayesian n-gram model of natural languages. Our model makes use of a generalization of the commonly used Dirichlet distributions called Pitman-Yor pr...
Yee Whye Teh
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases
This paper introduces a novel framework for the accurate retrieval of relational concepts from huge texts. Prior to retrieval, all sentences are annotated with predicate argument ...
Yusuke Miyao, Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshima...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Machine Learning of Temporal Relations
This paper investigates a machine learning approach for temporally ordering and anchoring events in natural language texts. To address data sparseness, we used temporal reasoning ...
Inderjeet Mani, Marc Verhagen, Ben Wellner, Chong ...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Minimum Cut Model for Spoken Lecture Segmentation
We consider the task of unsupervised lecture segmentation. We formalize segmentation as a graph-partitioning task that optimizes the normalized cut criterion. Our approach moves b...
Igor Malioutov, Regina Barzilay
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Punjabi Machine Transliteration
Machine Transliteration is to transcribe a word written in a script with approximate phonetic equivalence in another language. It is useful for machine translation, cross-lingual ...
M. G. Abbas Malik
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Annotation Schemes and their Influence on Parsing Results
Most of the work on treebank-based statistical parsing exclusively uses the WallStreet-Journal part of the Penn treebank for evaluation purposes. Due to the presence of this quasi...
Wolfgang Maier
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper presents a new approach based on Equivalent Pseudowords (EPs) to tackle Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in Chinese language. EPs are particular artificial ambiguous wor...
Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jianmin Yao, Ting Liu, Sh...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
On2L - A Framework for Incremental Ontology Learning in Spoken Dialog Systems
An open-domain spoken dialog system has to deal with the challenge of lacking lexical as well as conceptual knowledge. As the real world is constantly changing, it is not possible...
Berenike Loos