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ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Tree Sequence Alignment-based Tree-to-Tree Translation Model
This paper presents a translation model that is based on tree sequence alignment, where a tree sequence refers to a single sequence of subtrees that covers a phrase. The model lev...
Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li, Che...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
When Specialists and Generalists Work Together: Overcoming Domain Dependence in Sentiment Tagging
This study presents a novel approach to the problem of system portability across different domains: a sentiment annotation system that integrates a corpus-based classifier trained...
Alina Andreevskaia, Sabine Bergler
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation
Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user fe...
François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Enriching Morphologically Poor Languages for Statistical Machine Translation
We address the problem of translating from morphologically poor to morphologically rich languages by adding per-word linguistic information to the source language. We use the synt...
Eleftherios Avramidis, Philipp Koehn
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora
Paraphrase patterns are useful in paraphrase recognition and generation. In this paper, we present a pivot approach for extracting paraphrase patterns from bilingual parallel corp...
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Finding Contradictions in Text
Detecting conflicting statements is a foundational text understanding task with applications in information analysis. We propose an appropriate definition of contradiction for NLP...
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Anna N. Rafferty, Chr...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Logical Basis for the D Combinator and Normal Form in CCG
The standard set of rules defined in Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) fails to provide satisfactory analyses for a number of syntactic structures found in natural languages. T...
Frederick Hoyt, Jason Baldridge
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Parsing and PP Attachment Performance with Sense Information
To date, parsers have made limited use of semantic information, but there is evidence to suggest that semantic features can enhance parse disambiguation. This paper shows that sem...
Eneko Agirre, Timothy Baldwin, David Martín...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions
We propose a succinct randomized language model which employs a perfect hash function to encode fingerprints of n-grams and their associated probabilities, backoff weights, or oth...
David Talbot, Thorsten Brants