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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs
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...
Fabio De Bona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimi...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Summarizing Microblogs Automatically
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...
Beaux Sharifi, Mark-Anthony Hutton, Jugal K. Kalit...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Can Recognising Multiword Expressions Improve Shallow Parsing?
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...
Ioannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Online Learning for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation
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...
Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Products of Random Latent Variable Grammars
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...
Slav Petrov
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment
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...
Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Extraction Assessment through Better Language Models
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...
Arun Ahuja, Doug Downey
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Context-free reordering, finite-state translation
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...
Christopher Dyer, Philip Resnik
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Query Ambiguity Revisited: Clickthrough Measures for Distinguishing Informational and Ambiguous Queries
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...
Yu Wang, Eugene Agichtein