ACL
2008
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2008
Parse-tree paths are commonly used to incorporate information from syntactic parses into NLP systems. These systems typically treat the paths as atomic (or nearly atomic) features...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We propose the use of regular tree grammars (RTGs) as a formalism for the underspecified processing of scope ambiguities. By applying standard results on RTGs, we obtain a novel a...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
In adding syntax to statistical MT, there is a tradeoff between taking advantage of linguistic analysis, versus allowing the model to exploit linguistically unmotivated mappings l...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We propose an automatic machine translation (MT) evaluation metric that calculates a similarity score (based on precision and recall) of a pair of sentences. Unlike most metrics, ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Statistical machine learning methods are employed to train a Named Entity Recognizer from annotated data. Methods like Maximum Entropy and Conditional Random Fields make use of fe...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Traditional wisdom holds that once documents are turned into bag-of-words (unigram count) vectors, word orders are completely lost. We introduce an approach that, perhaps surprisi...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Traditional Information Extraction (IE) takes a relation name and hand-tagged examples of that relation as input. Open IE is a relationindependent extraction paradigm that is tail...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper is concerned with the problem of question search. In question search, given a question as query, we are to return questions semantically equivalent or close to the quer...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Previous studies evaluate simulated dialog corpora using evaluation measures which can be automatically extracted from the dialog systems' logs. However, the validity of thes...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
For centuries, the deep connection between languages has brought about major discoveries about human communication. In this paper we investigate how this powerful source of inform...