ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Among syntax-based translation models, the tree-based approach, which takes as input a parse tree of the source sentence, is a promising direction being faster and simpler than it...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We apply the hypothesis of "One Sense Per Discourse" (Yarowsky, 1995) to information extraction (IE), and extend the scope of "discourse" from one single docum...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We present a method to transliterate names in the framework of end-to-end statistical machine translation. The system is trained to learn when to transliterate. For Arabic to Engl...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We present a novel hierarchical prior structure for supervised transfer learning in named entity recognition, motivated by the common structure of feature spaces for this task acr...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Since facts or statements in a hedge or negated context typically appear as false positives, the proper handling of these language phenomena is of great importance in biomedical t...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper proposes a novel method that exploits multiple resources to improve statistical machine translation (SMT) based paraphrasing. In detail, a phrasal paraphrase table and ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We improve the quality of statistical machine translation (SMT) by applying models that predict word forms from their stems using extensive morphological and syntactic information...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper evaluates the LinGO Grammar Matrix, a cross-linguistic resource for the development of precision broad coverage grammars, by applying it to the Australian language Wamb...