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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring the Potential of Intractable Parsers
We revisit the idea of history-based parsing, and present a history-based parsing framework that strives to be simple, general, and flexible. We also provide a decoder for this pr...
Mark Hopkins, Jonas Kuhn
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Creating a CCGbank and a Wide-Coverage CCG Lexicon for German
We present an algorithm which creates a German CCGbank by translating the syntax graphs in the German Tiger corpus into CCG derivation trees. The resulting corpus contains 46,628 ...
Julia Hockenmaier
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Spoken language generation for dialogue systems requires a dictionary of mappings between semantic representations of concepts the system wants to express and realizations of thos...
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. W...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Collaborative Framework for Collecting Thai Unknown Words from the Web
We propose a collaborative framework for collecting Thai unknown words found on Web pages over the Internet. Our main goal is to design and construct a Webbased system which allow...
Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Chatchawal Sangkeettraka...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Analysis and Repair of Name Tagger Errors
Name tagging is a critical early stage in many natural language processing pipelines. In this paper we analyze the types of errors produced by a tagger, distinguishing name classi...
Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields for Improved Sequence Segmentation and Labeling
We present a new semi-supervised training procedure for conditional random fields (CRFs) that can be used to train sequence segmentors and labelers from a combination of labeled a...
Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chi-Hoon Lee, Russell Gre...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Local Constraints on Sentence Markers and Focus in Somali
We present a computationally tractable account of the interactions between sentence markers and focus marking in Somali. Somali, as a Cushitic language, has a basic pattern wherei...
Katherine Hargreaves, Allan Ramsay
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora
Accurately representing synonymy using distributional similarity requires large volumes of data to reliably represent infrequent words. However, the na
James Gorman, James R. Curran
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and Its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese
Japanese dependency structure is usually represented by relationships between phrasal units called bunsetsus. One of the biggest problems with dependency structure analysis in spo...
Ryoji Hamabe, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara,...