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ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque
In this paper, we describe the research using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker to be integrated in a grammar checker for Basque. After several experiments, and...
Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza D&ia...
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we argue that n-gram language models are not sufficient to address word reordering required for Machine Translation. We propose a new distortion model that can be u...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Archivus: A Multimodal System for Multimedia Meeting Browsing and Retrieval
This paper presents Archivus, a multimodal language-enabled meeting browsing and retrieval system. The prototype is in an early stage of development, and we are currently explorin...
Marita Ailomaa, Miroslav Melichar, Agnes Lisowska,...
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation
Morphological disambiguation is the process of assigning one set of morphological features to each individual word in a text. When the word is ambiguous (there are several possibl...
Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-Occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements
In this paper, we present a method that improves Japanese dependency parsing by using large-scale statistical information. It takes into account two kinds of information not consi...
Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants
We investigate the unsupervised detection of semi-fixed cue phrases such as "This paper proposes a novel approach. . . 1" from unseen text, on the basis of only a handfu...
Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing
We investigate generalizations of the allsubtrees "DOP" approach to unsupervised parsing. Unsupervised DOP models assign all possible binary trees to a set of sentences ...
Rens Bod
ACL
2004
14 years 29 days ago
Improving Pronoun Resolution by Incorporating Coreferential Information of Candidates
Coreferential information of a candidate, such as the properties of its antecedents, is important for pronoun resolution because it reflects the salience of the candidate in the l...
Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew Lim Tan
ACL
2004
14 years 29 days ago
A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation
We introduce a new method for disambiguating word senses that exploits a nonlinear Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) technique to achieve accuracy superior to the best pu...
Dekai Wu, Weifeng Su, Marine Carpuat