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ACL
2011
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Enhancing Language Models in Statistical Machine Translation with Backward N-grams and Mutual Information Triggers
In this paper, with a belief that a language model that embraces a larger context provides better prediction ability, we present two extensions to standard n-gram language models ...
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Joint Annotation of Search Queries
Marking up search queries with linguistic annotations such as part-of-speech tags, capitalization, and segmentation, is an important part of query processing and understanding in ...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Piggyback: Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition
We use search engine results to address a particularly difficult cross-domain language processing task, the adaptation of named entity recognition (NER) from news text to web que...
Stefan Rüd, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Jens M&uu...
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Using Large Monolingual and Bilingual Corpora to Improve Coordination Disambiguation
Resolving coordination ambiguity is a classic hard problem. This paper looks at coordination disambiguation in complex noun phrases (NPs). Parsers trained on the Penn Treebank are...
Shane Bergsma, David Yarowsky, Kenneth Ward Church
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A Joint Sequence Translation Model with Integrated Reordering
Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid, Alexander Fraser