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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring Distributional Similarity Based Models for Query Spelling Correction
A query speller is crucial to search engine in improving web search relevance. This paper describes novel methods for use of distributional similarity estimated from query logs in...
Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation
This paper presents a discriminative pruning method of n-gram language model for Chinese word segmentation. To reduce the size of the language model that is used in a Chinese word...
Jianfeng Li, Haifeng Wang, Dengjun Ren, Guohua Li
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance
Event-based summarization attempts to select and organize the sentences in a summary with respect to the events or the sub-events that the sentences describe. Each event has its o...
Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition
This paper shows that a simple two-stage approach to handle non-local dependencies in Named Entity Recognition (NER) can outperform existing approaches that handle non-local depen...
Vijay Krishnan, Christopher D. Manning
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Concept Unification of Terms in Different Languages for IR
Due to the historical and cultural reasons, English phases, especially the proper nouns and new words, frequently appear in Web pages written primarily in Asian languages such as ...
Qing Li, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, Bo-Yeong Kang
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts
away concepts from the surface form of the text. The authors argue that while there has been research into automatic classification, general classification schemes are unsuitable f...
Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Parsing and Subcategorization Data
In this paper, we compare the performance of a state-of-the-art statistical parser (Bikel, 2004) in parsing written and spoken language and in generating subcategorization cues fr...
Jianguo Li
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations
We present an efficient algorithm for the redundancy elimination problem: Given an underspecified semantic representation (USR) of a scope ambiguity, compute an USR with fewer mut...
Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems
We study a number of natural language decipherment problems using unsupervised learning. These include letter substitution ciphers, character code conversion, phonetic deciphermen...
Kevin Knight, Anish Nair, Nishit Rathod, Kenji Yam...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Weakly Supervised Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora
Named Entity recognition (NER) is an important part of many natural language processing tasks. Current approaches often employ machine learning techniques and require supervised d...
Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth