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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars
Syntactic machine translation systems extract rules from bilingual, word-aligned, syntactically parsed text, but current systems for parsing and word alignment are at best cascade...
David Burkett, John Blitzer, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Generalizing Syntactic Structures for Product Attribute Candidate Extraction
Noun phrases (NP) in a product review are always considered as the product attribute candidates in previous work. However, this method limits the recall of the product attribute e...
Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Shen Hu, Ting Liu
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework
Phonetic string transduction problems, such as letter-to-phoneme conversion and name transliteration, have recently received much attention in the NLP community. In the past few y...
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kon...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure
In evidence-based medicine, clinical questions involve four aspects: Patient/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), known as PICO elements. In this paper w...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-lingual Induction of Selectional Preferences with Bilingual Vector Spaces
We describe a cross-lingual method for the induction of selectional preferences for resourcepoor languages, where no accurate monolingual models are available. The method uses bil...
Yves Peirsman, Sebastian Padó
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Arabic Mention Detection: Toward Better Unit of Analysis
We investigate in this paper the adequate unit of analysis for Arabic Mention Detection. We experiment different segmentation schemes with various feature-sets. Results show that ...
Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Expected Sequence Similarity Maximization
Cyril Allauzen, Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation
The distortion cost function used in Mosesstyle machine translation systems has two flaws. First, it does not estimate the future cost of known required moves, thus increasing sea...
Spence Green, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Mannin...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers
In this paper we report a behavioural experiment documenting that different lexicosyntactic formulations of the discourse relation of causation are deemed more or less acceptable ...
Advaith Siddharthan, Napoleon Katsos
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Detect Figurative Language in Context
We present a Gaussian Mixture model for detecting different types of figurative language in context. We show that this model performs well when the parameters are estimated in an ...
Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder