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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
ACCURAT Toolkit for Multi-Level Alignment and Information Extraction from Comparable Corpora
The lack of parallel corpora and linguistic resources for many languages and domains is one of the major obstacles for the further advancement of automated translation. A possible...
Marcis Pinnis, Radu Ion, Dan Stefanescu, Fangzhong...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
IRIS: a Chat-oriented Dialogue System based on the Vector Space Model
This system demonstration paper presents IRIS (Informal Response Interactive System), a chat-oriented dialogue system based on the vector space model framework. The system belongs...
Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Sentence Dependency Tagging in Online Question Answering Forums
Online forums are becoming a popular resource in the state of the art question answering (QA) systems. Because of its nature as an online community, it contains more updated knowl...
Zhonghua Qu, Yang Liu
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Decoding Running Key Ciphers
There has been recent interest in the problem of decoding letter substitution ciphers using techniques inspired by natural language processing. We consider a different type of cla...
Sravana Reddy, Kevin Knight
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Akamon: An Open Source Toolkit for Tree/Forest-Based Statistical Machine Translation
We describe Akamon, an open source toolkit for tree and forest-based statistical machine translation (Liu et al., 2006; Mi et al., 2008; Mi and Huang, 2008). Akamon implements all...
Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning for Large-Scale Discriminative Training in SMT
With a few exceptions, discriminative training in statistical machine translation (SMT) has been content with tuning weights for large feature sets on small development data. Evid...
Patrick Simianer, Stefan Riezler, Chris Dyer
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Large-Scale Syntactic Language Modeling with Treelets
We propose a simple generative, syntactic language model that conditions on overlapping windows of tree context (or treelets) in the same way that n-gram language models condition...
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
DOMCAT: A Bilingual Concordancer for Domain-Specific Computer Assisted Translation
In this paper, we propose a web-based bilingual concordancer, DOMCAT 1 , for domain-specific computer assisted translation. Given a multi-word expression as a query, the system in...
Ming-Hong Bai, Yu-Ming Hsieh, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jaso...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Text Segmentation by Language Using Minimum Description Length
The problem addressed in this paper is to segment a given multilingual document into segments for each language and then identify the language of each segment. The problem was mot...
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Fine Granular Aspect Analysis using Latent Structural Models
In this paper, we present a structural learning model for joint sentiment classification and aspect analysis of text at various levels of granularity. Our model aims to identify ...
Lei Fang, Minlie Huang