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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces
The trend in information retrieval systems is from document to sub-document retrieval, such as sentences in a summarization system and words or phrases in question-answering syste...
Catherine Blake
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT
This paper presents an extensive evaluation of five different alignments and investigates their impact on the corresponding MT system output. We introduce new measures for intrins...
Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Phrase-Based Statistical Model for SMS Text Normalization
Short Messaging Service (SMS) texts behave quite differently from normal written texts and have some very special phenomena. To translate SMS texts, traditional approaches model s...
AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Juan Xiao, Jian Su
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Acceptability Prediction by Means of Grammaticality Quantification
We propose in this paper a method for quantifying sentence grammaticality. The approach based on Property Grammars, a constraint-based syntactic formalism, makes it possible to ev...
Philippe Blache, Barbara Hemforth, Stéphane...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Flexible Approach to Natural Language Generation for Disabled Children
Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a way to automatically realize a correct expression in response to a communicative goal. This technology is mainly explored in the fields of m...
Pradipta Biswas
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
The Natural Language Toolkit is a suite of program modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and teaching in computational linguistics and natural language processing. ...
Steven Bird
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering
An unsupervised part-of-speech (POS) tagging system that relies on graph clustering methods is described. Unlike in current state-of-the-art approaches, the kind and number of dif...
Chris Biemann
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Bootstrapping Path-Based Pronoun Resolution
We present an approach to pronoun resolution based on syntactic paths. Through a simple bootstrapping procedure, we learn the likelihood of coreference between a pronoun and a can...
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation
In this paper, we describe a rote extractor that learns patterns for finding semantic relationships in unrestricted text, with new procedures for pattern generalization and scorin...
Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura,...