ACL
2010
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2010
This paper presents a novel filtration criteria to restrict the rule extraction for the hierarchical phrase-based translation model, where a bilingual but relaxed well-formed depe...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
In this paper we demonstrate that there is a strong correlation between the Question Answering (QA) accuracy and the log-likelihood of the answer typing component of our statistic...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
In this paper, we study the problem of using an annotated corpus in English for the same natural language processing task in another language. While various machine translation sy...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
The Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus (MASC) project provides data and annotations to serve as the base for a communitywide annotation effort of a subset of the American National Corp...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We propose a novel method to automatically acquire a term-frequency-based taxonomy from a corpus using an unsupervised method. A term-frequency-based taxonomy is useful for applic...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
A strong inductive bias is essential in unsupervised grammar induction. We explore a particular sparsity bias in dependency grammars that encourages a small number of unique depen...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We present a novel system that helps nonexperts find sets of similar words. The user begins by specifying one or more seed words. The system then iteratively suggests a series of ...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Current work on automatic opinion mining has ignored opinion targets expressed by anaphorical pronouns, thereby missing a significant number of opinion targets. In this paper we e...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
In predicate-argument structure analysis, it is important to capture non-local dependencies among arguments and interdependencies between the sense of a predicate and the semantic...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This paper introduces mNCD, a method for automatic evaluation of machine translations. The measure is based on normalized compression distance (NCD), a general information theoret...