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ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Semi-Supervised Training for Statistical Word Alignment
We introduce a semi-supervised approach to training for statistical machine translation that alternates the traditional Expectation Maximization step that is applied on a large tr...
Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
The Benefit of Stochastic PP Attachment to a Rule-Based Parser
To study PP attachment disambiguation as a benchmark for empirical methods in natural language processing it has often been reduced to a binary decision problem (between verb or n...
Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Hybrid Parsing: Using Probabilistic Models as Predictors for a Symbolic Parser
In this paper we investigate the benefit of stochastic predictor components for the parsing quality which can be obtained with a rule-based dependency grammar. By including a chun...
Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Guiding a Constraint Dependency Parser with Supertags
We investigate the utility of supertag information for guiding an existing dependency parser of German. Using weighted constraints to integrate the additionally available informat...
Kilian A. Foth, Tomas By, Wolfgang Menzel
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Factorizing Complex Models: A Case Study in Mention Detection
As natural language understanding research advances towards deeper knowledge modeling, the tasks become more and more complex: we are interested in more nuanced word characteristi...
Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Imed ...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Automatic Creation of Domain Templates
Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathle...
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with an Index Based on Associations
A good dictionary contains not only many entries and a lot of information concerning each one of them, but also adequate means to reveal the stored information. Information access...
Olivier Ferret, Michael Zock
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Highly Constrained Unification Grammars
Unification grammars are widely accepted as an expressive means for describing the structure of natural languages. In general, the recognition problem is undecidable for unificati...
Daniel Feinstein, Shuly Wintner
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Chinese-English Term Translation Mining Based on Semantic Prediction
Using abundant Web resources to mine Chinese term translations can be applied in many fields such as reading/writing assistant, machine translation and crosslanguage information r...
Gaolin Fang, Hao Yu, Fumihito Nishino
ACL
2006
14 years 28 days ago
Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison
This paper presents a method for building genetic language taxonomies based on a new approach to comparing lexical forms. Instead of comparing forms cross-linguistically, a matrix...
T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby