NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
The goal of this work is to integrate query similarity metrics as features into a dense model that can be trained on large amounts of query log data, in order to rank query rewrit...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
In this paper, we focus on a recent Web trend called microblogging, and in particular a site called Twitter. The content of such a site is an extraordinarily large number of small...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
There is significant evidence in the literature that integrating knowledge about multiword expressions can improve shallow parsing accuracy. We present an experimental study to qu...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
State-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) systems are still far from being perfect. An alternative is the so-called Interactive Machine Translation (IMT) framework. In this framew...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We show that the automatically induced latent variable grammars of Petrov et al. (2006) vary widely in their underlying representations, depending on their EM initialization point...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
This paper investigates cross-lingual textual entailment as a semantic relation between two text portions in different languages, and proposes a prospective research direction. We...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
A variety of information extraction techniques rely on the fact that instances of the same relation are "distributionally similar," in that they tend to appear in simila...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We describe a class of translation model in which a set of input variants encoded as a context-free forest is translated using a finitestate translation model. The forest structur...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Understanding query ambiguity in web search remains an important open problem. In this paper we reexamine query ambiguity by analyzing the result clickthrough data. Previously pro...