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NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Taxonomy Learning Using Word Sense Induction
Taxonomies are an important resource for a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Despite this, the current stateof-the-art methods in taxonomy learning have d...
Ioannis P. Klapaftis, Suresh Manandhar
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NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds
Open-class semantic lexicon induction is of great interest for current knowledge harvesting algorithms. We propose a general framework that uses patterns in bootstrapping fashion ...
Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard H. Hovy
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
A principal weakness of conventional (i.e., non-hierarchical) phrase-based statistical machine translation is that it can only exploit continuous phrases. In this paper, we extend...
Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech
Out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words represent an important source of error in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) systems. These words cause recognition failures, whi...
Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Denis Filimonov, Fre...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
This paper presents a direct word reordering model with novel syntax-based features for statistical machine translation. Reordering models address the problem of reordering source...
Niyu Ge
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Relaxed Marginal Inference and its Application to Dependency Parsing
Recently, relaxation approaches have been successfully used for MAP inference on NLP problems. In this work we show how to extend the relaxation approach to marginal inference use...
Sebastian Riedel, David A. Smith
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Word Alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar
The class of Linear Inversion Transduction Grammars (LITGs) is introduced, and used to induce a word alignment over a parallel corpus. We show that alignment via Stochastic Bracke...
Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu