ACL
2010
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2010
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are a widely-used approach for supervised sequence labelling, notably due to their ability to handle large description spaces and to integrate str...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We outline different methods to detect errors in automatically-parsed dependency corpora, by comparing so-called dependency rules to their representation in the training data and ...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We present a system that learns to follow navigational natural language directions. Where traditional models learn from linguistic annotation or word distributions, our approach i...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We present a discriminative model that directly predicts which set of phrasal translation rules should be extracted from a sentence pair. Our model scores extraction sets: nested ...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We consider the search for a maximum likelihood assignment of hidden derivations and grammar weights for a probabilistic context-free grammar, the problem approximately solved by ...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This paper describes a series of experiments to test the hypothesis that the parallel application of multiple NLP tools and the integration of their results improves the correctne...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We present a simple yet powerful hierarchical search algorithm for automatic word alignment. Our algorithm induces a forest of alignments from which we can efficiently extract a r...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We introduce a novel mechanism for incorporating articulatory dynamics into speech recognition with the theory of task dynamics. This system reranks sentencelevel hypotheses by th...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
While Inversion Transduction Grammar (ITG) has regained more and more attention in recent years, it still suffers from the major obstacle of speed. We propose a discriminative ITG...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Discourse references, notably coreference and bridging, play an important role in many text understanding applications, but their impact on textual entailment is yet to be systema...