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ACL
2008
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Correcting Misuse of Verb Forms
This paper proposes a method to correct English verb form errors made by non-native speakers. A basic approach is template matching on parse trees. The proposed method improves on...
John Lee, Stephanie Seneff
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Applying a Grammar-Based Language Model to a Simplified Broadcast-News Transcription Task
We propose a language model based on a precise, linguistically motivated grammar (a hand-crafted Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) and a statistical model estimating the proba...
Tobias Kaufmann, Beat Pfister
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes
People rarely articulate explicitly what a native speaker of a language is already assumed to know. So to acquire the stereotypical knowledge that underpins much of what is said i...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao, Guofu Li
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal $k$-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar
Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing
Discriminative feature-based methods are widely used in natural language processing, but sentence parsing is still dominated by generative methods. While prior feature-based dynam...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Alex Kleeman, Christopher D. Ma...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-Text Annotations
This paper demonstrates a new method for leveraging unstructured annotations to infer semantic document properties. We consider the domain of product reviews, which are often anno...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Re...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Semi-Supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing
We present a novel semi-supervised training algorithm for learning dependency parsers. By combining a supervised large margin loss with an unsupervised least squares loss, a discr...
Qin Iris Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Dekang Lin
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Large-scale discriminative machine translation promises to further the state-of-the-art, but has failed to deliver convincing gains over current heuristic frequency count systems....
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs
We present a novel approach to weakly supervised semantic class learning from the web, using a single powerful hyponym pattern combined with graph structures, which capture two pr...
Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff, Eduard H. Hovy
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-Task Active Learning for Linguistic Annotations
We extend the classical single-task active learning (AL) approach. In the multi-task active learning (MTAL) paradigm, we select examples for several annotation tasks rather than f...
Roi Reichart, Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn, Ari Rappop...